Wilson v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 133. This was an amicable action wherein Theodore Wilson was plaintiff and Henry Brown defendant. The facts of the case are siifficiently set forth in the opinion of this court.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson county: Of October and November Term 1876, No. 133. This was an amicable action wherein Theodore Wilson was plaintiff and Henry Brown defendant. The facts of the case are siifficiently set forth in the opinion of this court. The parties submitted the matters in controversy to arbitrators, who made an award which the plaintiff moved the court to strike off on the ground that it was not final and conclusive and the court struck it off. Plaintiff took this writ and assigned for error that the court erred in striking off the award and in making the…
1Opinion of the Court
'Mr. Justice Woodward
delivered the opinion of 'the court, November 6th 1876.
On the 20th of July 1875, an agreéiñent was made by these parties for the entry of an amicable action, with all the effect of a summons regularly issued and served, and for the submission of all matters in controversy between them to three named referees, who had been mutually chosen. The agreement stipulated that the submission should be made a rule of court, and the parties bound themselves to submit to and be finally concluded by the award of *439the referees, or a majority of them, and without the right of appeal. The…
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