Thornton v. Carson
Supreme Court of the United States
TRROR tp the Circuit Court for the district • iff: Columbia, sitting at Washington. Two actions of debt, commenced at Ia^ by Carson against Thornton, upon two bonds for the payment of money, were referred,, by consent under a rule of Court to arbitrators, who awarded that the first action should «he marked emd' considered'settled; and that the « also should be marked and considered settled, «that the Defendant, Thornton, in conjunction with the «trustees of the gold-mine…
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TRROR tp the Circuit Court for the district • iff: Columbia, sitting at Washington. Two actions of debt, commenced at Ia^ by Carson against Thornton, upon two bonds for the payment of money, were referred,, by consent under a rule of Court to arbitrators, who awarded that the first action should «he marked emd' considered'settled; and that the « also should be marked and considered settled, «that the Defendant, Thornton, in conjunction with the «trustees of the gold-mine company of North Carolina, «should convey and secure, by a deed and assurance «legally'executed, with proper and usual…
1Opinion of the CourtWashington, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court for the district of Columbia.
Under a rule which was served upon the Plaintiff in error to show cause, during the* term at which the rule was made, why judgment should not be entered on the award,, he appeared and assigned for cause, that the said award was'uncertain, not final, unreasonable,-,conditional, and void.
These objections are'strictly technical, and referrable solely to defects supposed to appear on the face of the award, and do not aim to impeach it for any. one of the causes which the law of Maryland, passed in October,…
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