Graham v. Woodall
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Calboun. Tried, before tbe Hon. John B. Tally. cited Woolf v. Shelton, 51 Ala. 425; Brewer v. Baine, 60 Ala. 153; Vaughn v. Smith, 69 Ala. 92; Mitcham v. Moore, 73 Ala. 542.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
The present suit counts on an award of arbitrators, made on agreed submission, without any order of court therefor. There was a demurrer to the complaint, which was rightly overruled. — 1 Amer. & Eng. Encyc. Law, 707, note 1.
The defendant Graham pleaded several pleas in defense, to which plaintiff demurred, and the court sustained his demurrer. Declining to plead further, plaintiff had judgment. Each of defendant’s pleas set up substantially the same defense, but we will confine what we have to say to those numbered one and two, as some of the others are insufficient. The substance of the…
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