Arnold v. Richmond Iron Works
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Motion by the defendant for the acceptance of an award of arbitrators, under a submission entered into on the 15th of July 1853, before a justice of the peace, pursuant to Rev. Sts. c. 114. The court of common pleas accepted the award, and the plaintiff appealed to this court.
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Motion by the defendant for the acceptance of an award of arbitrators, under a submission entered into on the 15th of July 1853, before a justice of the peace, pursuant to Rev. Sts. c. 114. The court of common pleas accepted the award, and the plaintiff appealed to this court. The parties, by certain terms and conditions annexed to the agreement of submission, stipulated that it should include all demands of Arnold “either against the said Richmond Iron Works, or the late firm of Gates, Pettee & Co., for ore taken from certain premises in West Stockbridge and Richmond, known as the Cone Ore…
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, C. J.
The present case is so like the recent case of Allis v. Billings, 6 Met. 415, in all its essential features, that if seems hardly necessary to do more than cite that case. If was there held that when a deed conveying land had been duly signed, sealed, delivered and acknowledged, and placed in a condition to be put on record, by one of unsound mind, and cash and notes had been given by the grantee in security and satisfaction for the price, such deed was voidable and not void; and that if afterwards, and after the grantor was restored to his right mind, he did acts deliberately, manifesting an…
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