Case ID: pen-w_2/html/0158-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PETER PRIDE against SAMUEL THOMPSON.
    IN ERROR.
    An award of arbitrators, in an'aetion of covenant, finding a sum due to the defendant by the plaintiff, is good.
    Writ of error to Venango county.-
    This was an action of covenant, in which the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff below.
    Defendant pleaded, “covenants performed, absque hoe;- no breach. Issue.
    , The cause was referred, under the compulsory arbitration act, and the arbitrators made an award in favor of the defendant for twenty dollars.
    . Error assigned. “The arbitrators had no power, in an action of covenant, and on the defendants pleas, to award a sum in favor of the defendant; or to receive evidence of set-off, which they must have done.”
    
      Galbreath and Pearson for plaintiff in error.
    
      JBredin for defendant in error.
    See opinion in Le Barron v. Harriott, ante 154.
   Judgment affirmed.