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27 Vt. 660

Morse v. Hale

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided April 15, 1855

Supreme Court of Vermont · decided 1855-04-15

Arbitration. Award to be coextensive with submission. Assumpsit on an award. Plea, the general issue; trial by jury, December Term, 1854. — Poland, J., presiding.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently November 1980

2 state decisions

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Decided 1855-04-15

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¶1The opinion of the court was delivered by

Redfield, Ch. J.

¶2It is a well settled rule of the law of arbitration, that if two entire subject matters are submitted, and only one of them awarded upon, the award is not binding, on the ground that it is probable that the party might not have agreed to submit one alone. This applies with peculiar force, when the claims are upon different sides of the submission, and especially in a case like the present, where there are mutual law suits between the parties. It is scarcely supposable that the defendant, in this case would have submitted the plaintiff’s suit and not his own. And as no award was made upon the defendant’s suit, we think it must be regarded, that the award is not such, as the submission contemplated. It is wanting in finality. The case of Randall v. Randall, 7 East. 81, is very much in point, upon this question.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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