Case ID: dc_1/html/0089-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Davy v. Faw.
    When the terms of submission to arbitration are uncertain, parol evidence may be given of the controversies submitted.
    Debt on award. The terms of submission were “ of a controversy of several accounts and contracts existing between us.”
   The Court,

allowed parol evidence to show what were the accounts and contracts meant in the submission, and stopped Mr. C. Lee who had offered such evidence, and informed him that in the case of Ellzey v. Mosorop, in Washington, they had decided that where the terms of submission were uncertain, parol evidence might be given of the controversies submitted.

Marshall, J., absent.