M'Rae v. Buck
Supreme Court of Alabama
In error from Tuskaloosa Circuit Court This suit was instituted on the chancery side of Tuskaloosa Circuit court, by McRae, to -review a settlement of accounts, once existing between himself and the defendants in error, as joint .owners of . a barge. The matters of difference had been, some six years before the filing of the bill, submitted to arbitrators, who had made an award.
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In error from Tuskaloosa Circuit Court This suit was instituted on the chancery side of Tuskaloosa Circuit court, by McRae, to -review a settlement of accounts, once existing between himself and the defendants in error, as joint .owners of . a barge. The matters of difference had been, some six years before the filing of the bill, submitted to arbitrators, who had made an award. The complainant alleged, as a ground for the relief of chancery, that the arbitrators had committed a mistake as -to the law of the case, by which an injury had ensued. The chancellor dismissed the bill, and from his…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
From the view which I take of this case, I consider it wholly unnecessary to enter into a general investigation of the merits.
The-bill, which was filed loth September, 1826,. states, that in 1820, complainant and defendants were part owners of the barge Mary, of which complainant was the master; that differences arose between them, which were, late in that year, referrred to arbitrators ; that an award was made, by which complainant was greatly injured, from a mistake of law made by tbe arbitrators; that complainant had freighted on said boat, goods, &c., for one Merritt, of Mobile, the…
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