1899 public laws – Ch.164 Sec.25
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CHAPTER 164 An act to establish the North Carolina Corporation Commission. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Whenever any company or corporation embraced in this act has a controversy or controversies with another such company or corporation or person or persons, and all the parties to such controversy agree in writing to submit such controversy to the commission aforesaid as arbitrators, said commission shall act as such, and after due notice to all parties interested shall proceed to hear the same, and their award shall be final. Said award in eases where land or an interest in land is concerned shall immediately be certified to the clerk of the superior court of the county in which said land is situated and shall by such clerk be docketed in the judgment docket for said county, and from such docketing shall be a judgment of the superior court for such county. Before such arbitrators parties may appear in person or by attorney.