Case Name: Moore administrator of Moore against Miller
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1818-06-13
Citations: 4 Serg. & Rawle 279
Docket Number: 
Parties: Moore administrator of Moore against Miller.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Sergeant & Rawle)
Volume: 4
Pages: 279–279

Head Matter:
Moore administrator of Moore against Miller.
In Error.
Saturday, June 13.
THE plaintiff in error brought an action against the defendant in the Common Pleas of Union county, on an award in writing, and the Court left it to the jury to determine what was the meaning of the arbitrators, which Marr tended was error.
r js error the jury to de. an award in writing.
Bradford., for the defendant in error.

Opinion:
By The Court.
The Judge, after expressing his own opinion on the construction of the award, left it to .the jury to determine what was the' intention of the referees. T his was error. The jury should have been told what was the legal import of the award, and upon that point nothing should have been left to them, because it was a pure unmixed matter of law. The judgment, therefore, must be reversed, and a venire facias de novo awarded.
Judgment reversed, and a venire facias de novo awarded.