Eastman v. Wright
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of debt upon the following articles of agreement, dated September 8, 1824, viz„• “ Whereas Zebina Eastman and others, whose names are hereunto subjoined, purchasers of petos in the meetinghouse of the Second Society of Universalists in Boston, claim of Winslow Wright and others, whose names are hereunto subjoined, original subscribers for building said meetinghouse, the sum of 3326 dollars and 41 cents, to be paid into the treasury of said socle ty, or to…
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This was an action of debt upon the following articles of agreement, dated September 8, 1824, viz„• “ Whereas Zebina Eastman and others, whose names are hereunto subjoined, purchasers of petos in the meetinghouse of the Second Society of Universalists in Boston, claim of Winslow Wright and others, whose names are hereunto subjoined, original subscribers for building said meetinghouse, the sum of 3326 dollars and 41 cents, to be paid into the treasury of said socle ty, or to admit said purchasers of pews to be owners in com mon with the original subscribers, in all the unsold pews in said…
1Opinion of the Court
Morton J.
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is A an action of debt brought on articles of agreement alleged to nave been entered into by the plaintiffs on one part and the defendants on the other. The plaintiffs aver, that by this agreement, they, as purchasers of pews in a certain meetinghouse, on the one part, having certain claims and demands in relation to such house against the defendants, as original proprietors of the house, on the other, mutually agreed to submit them to arbitration, and that the arbitrator, having accepted the trust, made an award, but that the defendants did…
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