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2 Serg. & Rawle 106

Commonwealth v. La Fitte

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 22, 1815

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1815-12-22

ACTION of debt in the name of the Commonwealth, on an administration bond, against Anthony La Fitte, administrator of Peter La Fitte, and Aimé Brandt and Anthony Terradell, his sureties. It was submitted to arbitrators agreeably to the act of 20th March, 1810,(a) who on the 21st July, 1815, awarded against the defendants 6000 dollars, the penalty of the bond.

Decided 1815-12-22

By the Court.

¶1The exceptions must be dismissed. The case amounts to this. The defendants complain, that the arbitrators erred in point of law, in rejecting his evidence. But supposing it to be so, the remedy is not by filing exceptions ; but by appeal. The act of assembly gives the arbitrators the power of deciding on the competency of evidence, as well as its credibility, and to determine all questions in the cause, as well of law as of fact. And the award, when filed in the office of the prothonotary, is to be considered as a judgment until reversed. The defendant, therefore, has mistaken his remedy. If the arbitrators had misbehaved in the execution of their duty, it would have been a different case. This *107£omt might then have inquired into their conduct to prevent a failure of justice, for such misbehaviour could in no other way have been inquired" of. But nothing of that kind is alleged.

¶2Exceptions dismissed.

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