Damon v. Berger

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

This is an . appeal from an order of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia striking an award of a board of arbitrators from the record because it was filed more than twenty days after the hearing. The arbitration was had under the provisions of the Act of June 16, 1836,1 P. L. 715, as amended, 5 PS §21 et seq., commonly referred to as Compulsory Arbitration.

The plaintiffs instituted an action in assumpsit on December 24, 1957, to recover $810 from the defendant for work performed under an oral contract to survey *167and plot certain parcels of land owned by the defendant in…