All  the  considerations,  then,  that  can  weigh  with  a
Court,  the  just  principles  for  the  interpretation  of  statutes^
the  authority  of  abjudications,  and  ancient  writers  on  tha
law,  and  a  regard  to  souud  policy,  and  good  moraIa~


DECElfBER  TERM,  1847.  1st

Whitfiddv.Whitfitld.
ooneor  in  prodaeing  the  convictiooi  that  the  judgment  it
enoneonff.
Pbe  CuiiAif.    Jadgment  reversed,  and  v§nir§  Jk  wnta
awarded.
DEN  ON  DEMISE  OF  WILLIAM  A.  WHITnELD    &  AL.  m.
HATCH  WHTTFIELD.
lo  an  aetion  of  ejeetmrat,  whero  an  arbKratioik  had  htm  agiaed  opoOy  aid

theawaid  was  sol  mada  wita  afler  tlie  dMth  of  one  «f  tho  Immu  onhe

plaiatiff,  HM  that  tha  award  was  void,
llioagh  Jahn  Deii»  hj  fioCion  of  law  may  ba  tho  oatonaiblo  plaintiff  in  aa

action  of  ojeetmant,  tho  Court  will  not  anflbr  aneh  n  fiction  to  waik  aa

iajnry  to  tho  paitioo  loally  intorwtod.
Appeal  from  the  Superior  Court  of  Law  of  Wayne
County,  at  the  Fall  Term,  1S4T,  his  Honor  Judge  iimat
presiding.
This  was  an  aetion  of  ejectment,  in  which  the  follow*
iag  facts  appeared.
114  .    SUPREME  COURT.
