Stephens v. Johnson & Brother

Stephens instituted an action in a justice’s court against Johnson & Brother, upon an alleged account amounting to $93.30. On an appeal of the cause to the superior court of Walker county, the defendants pleaded not indebted; and also alleged, by way of a plea in bar of the action, that a suit upon this claim had formerly been instituted in a justice’s court, and that such suit was afterwards withdrawn from the court for arbitration; that both parties agreed to the arbitration, and not only agreed to it, but swore to abide by the award of the arbitrators. They further alleged that all matters…