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Subject_1 ARBITRATION.
Date: Dalgleish
v.
Johnstons
29 January 1742
Case No.No. 7.
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A submission by a poor old countryman of his right, which was without any doubtfulness in law, appearing to have been brought about by a trick, with the knowledge at least and privity of the arbiters, (also countrymen,) who thereupon gave a decreet-arbitral against very plain law; the Lords not only reduced the submission and decreet, and found the arbiters liable in expense and damages, but also fined and imprisoned them for eight days.
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