# Torrey v. Munroe

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · January 31, 1876 · 119 Mass. 490

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6418418

## Case

- **Full name:** Frances Torrey v. Israel W. Munroe
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** January 31, 1876
- **Citations:** 119 Mass. 490; 1876 Mass. LEXIS 71
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Gray
- **Judges:** Gray
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Gray, C. J.
The judgment of the Superior Court, accepting the award, was erroneous: 1st. Because the matter in controversy could not be the subject of a personal action at law, or of a suit in equity, and therefore could not be submitted to arbitration by agreement before a justice of the peace under the statute. Gen. Sts. c. 147, § 1. Hubbell v. Bissell, 13 Gray, 298 . 2d. Because the award could not be enforced by any judgment that the Superior Court could render. Gen. Sts. c. 147, § 10. Brown v. Evans, 6 Allen, 333 . Award set aside.

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