Connor v. Simpson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Alleghany county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 93. Debt, by Thomas P. Simpson against James II. Connor, to recover $750, the amount of an award by an arbiter in favor of the plaintiff. . The plaintiff filed an affidavit of claim, and appended thereto a copy of an agreement under seal, between plaintiff and defendant, and a copy of the award.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Alleghany county: Of October and November Term 1883, No. 93. Debt, by Thomas P. Simpson against James II. Connor, to recover $750, the amount of an award by an arbiter in favor of the plaintiff. . The plaintiff filed an affidavit of claim, and appended thereto a copy of an agreement under seal, between plaintiff and defendant, and a copy of the award. By the agreement, the defendant contracted to grade a-certain portion of the road-bed of the Pittsburgh and Chicago Railway Company, at certain specified rates according to the character of the .work…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The controlling question in this case is, whether the instrument of writing, dated July 12th 1881, signed by Delos E. Culver as an arbiter, and purporting to be an award, is sufficient to sustain the present action. The submission was prospective, but it was special, and was to the arbitrament of a person designated; it was founded on a valuable consideration, and was binding on the parties.
■ The matters in controversy were clearly within the jurisdiction of the arbiter, as, according to the submission, “ all and every question of difference, between them, growing out of the contract,” was to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gratz v. GratzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1834
3Cited by6 opinions
- Chandley Bros. v. Cambridge Springs BoroughSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
- Connor v. SimpsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
- Commercial Union Assur. Co. v. DalzellCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1914
- McNally v. Montour RailroadSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1907
- Commonwealth v. Eastern Paving Co., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County1926
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