Henry v. Davis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon a bond “ in the sum of $500.” The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff for nominal damages, to this court, on appeal, on an agreed statement of facts, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The plaintiff and defendant, being the owners of adjoining lots of land, the dividing line of which was in dispute, entered into an agreement to submit to arbitrators the question of the location of the disputed line. At the same time the defendant executed the bond in suit, the condition of which is that he shall stand to and abide by the decision and award of a majority of the arbitrators, and shall stand to and abide by the boundary line agreed upon and established by the said arbitrators as the true boundary line between their respective estates, and shall execute to the plaintiff a…
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