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80 Ala. 372

Bell v. Sampey

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1885

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1885-12-15

Tried before TIon. James E. Cobb. Jamés M. Bell brought suit at the October term, 1885, of Chilton Circuit Court, against J. L. Sampey for' damages, and while said cause was pending in said court, the parties entered into a written agreement to leave the matters in controversy between them to certain named persons, whose decision should be entered as the judgment of the Circuit Court in the cause.

Relies on Collins v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Dudley v. Farris

Decided 1885-12-15

SOMERVILLE, J.

¶1The first of these cases is an appeal taken from the action of the circuit judge refusing to enter the award of the arbitrators as the judgment of the Óircuit Court. Such an appeal is unauthorized by the statute and will not lie, and the motion to dismiss it must be sustained on the authority of Dudley v. Farris & McCurdy, where the precise question arose and was decided at the present term. — Code, 1876, § 3547; *373Collins v. L. & N. R. R. Co, 70 Ala. 533; Dudley v. Farris & McCurdy, 79 Ala. 189.

¶2The mandamus applied for in the second of the above causes must also be refused upon the authority of Ex parte Dudley, 79 Ala. 187, present term. "We there held, that a submission to arbitration of matters involved in a pending suit, without any order or rule of court authorizing it, was not a statutory award. In the same case we decided that the court had no authority to enter up as its judgment a common law award, or any other than an award rendered in substantial compliance with the provisions of the statute, unless by solemn consent of the parties given in open court. A consent given out of court, and revoked before the entry of the consent-judgment based on it, will not answer the purpose.

¶3The appeal in the first case is dismissed. The application for mandamus in the second case is denied.

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