Case Name: RAINEY against BLACK
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1831-09
Citations: 3 Pen. & W. 40
Docket Number: 
Parties: RAINEY against BLACK.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Penrose & Watts)
Volume: 3
Pages: 40–41

Head Matter:
RAINEY against BLACK.
ft is error 16 Siipercecie the evidence of the cause of action, by counter evidence iri anticipation of its effect.
Error to Westmoreland cdunty.
This was an action of debt on an award in whiéh the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff below. The plaintiff having proved the execution of the submission and award, offered to read the same to the jury; the defendant objected, and in order to support his objection, gave evidence tb the court which tended to show, that the’ submission had been revoked before the award made. The court decided the law to be, that the submission was revocable, and the fact to be, that it was revoked; and therefore rejected the evidence; to which the plaintiff took exception; which is the subject of this Writ of error.
Kuhns and J. B. Jllexai%der for plaintiff, in error,
whom the Court declined to hear.
J. F. Barclay and Foster for defendant in error,
cited, Kyd, on aiOdrds, 29.

Opinion:
Per CuriAm.
Whether the submission were revocable or not, the fact of actual revocation, which was the main point of the defence, was withdrawn from the jury. i But it is Well settled, though not sufficiently attended to in practice, that evidence of the cause of action is not to be superceded by counter evidence in anticipation of its effect. Ünder the plea of non est factum, the court cannot prevent the disputed deed from going before the jury, on a Supposition that the execution of it has not been sufficiently proved, or that the evidence of the party maintaining the affirmative of the issue has been disproved. Here the existence of the submission at the time of the award, Was the very thing to be decided; and as it was a matter of fact, the evidence on both sides ought to have gone to the jury.
Judgment reversed, and a venire de novo awarded.