“There being a controversy between Hunt, Parry, & Co., as successors to Brummell & Hunt of Athens, and M. N. of Zoar, in regard to the amount due from the former to the latter for proceeds arising from the publication and sale of the books of which M. N. is the author, it is hereby agreed between the parties to the controversy to submit the points in dispute to George W. Hampden and James Russell, as friendly referees, with the right to the referees to choose a third as umpire, either on the general merits or on any specific point that may be submitted to said third person. And both parties to this agreement hereby bind themselves to accept the award of said referees as binding and conclusive, without reserving any right of appeal to any court of law.
“In witness whereof this agreement is signed by both parties in presence of the referees, to whose custody it is committed.”
As I did not intend ever again to sign a paper whose import I did not fully comprehend, it may be supposed that I listened attentively to the reading of this paper. As I had no design to appeal to any court of law, and as it did not preclude me from appealing to the court to which I had made up my mind to appeal, I had no hesitation in signing it.
The case being thus begun, nothing remained but to place in the hands of the referees—
The “entire case in all its bearings” between the firm of Brummell & Hunt and M. N.—as presented by the latter.
Compiled chiefly from the original documents.
In two parts:—
Part First. The case in brief.
Part Second. The case in full.
Each part complete in itself.