Case ID: kirby_1/html/0364-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the whole Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Rust v. Wilson.
    ActioN oh promissory note. Tbe defendant pleaded — That the note was given to compel obedience to the award of arbitrators to be made, relative to certain controversies then subsisting; and that it was given for no other canse or consideration; and that said arbitrators did not make any award in the premises. ¡
    The plaintiff replied, setting forth the following award:— “ That said Rnst recover of said Wilson the sum of £11 12s. 6d. lawful money, damage and cost, in full satisfaction of the matters submitted; and that they execute discharges each to the other accordingly.”
    To which there was a demurrer, and joinder in demurrer; and the only exception was, that the replication did not state a performance on the part of the plaintiff. But,
   By the whole Court.

The showing a' good award is a full and sufficient answer to the plea; and the defendant cannot be admitted to depart from his plea, by relying on another matter repugnant thereto.