Witt v. Ellis

The questions presented in this record, arise on the pleadings. The complainant, Witt, filed his bill' in the Chancery Court at Dandridge, in August, 1859, and before answer or plea was filed, the parties, in September following, submitted the matters in controversy to arbitration. A submission bond was regularly executed, but without containing any provision that the award should be made the basis of the Chancellor’s decree. The *40arbitrators met, and in conformity to the stipulations of the bond, made their award, which was afterwards, December 1859, returned into Court, and made the decree…