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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 05:02:38+00:00

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21 How. 62 U. S. 226 . Even in actions duly referred by rule of court to an arbitrator, only rulings and decisions in matter of law after the return of the award were reviewable. Thornton v. Carson, 7 Cranch 596, 11 U. S. 601 ; Alexandria Canal Co. v. Swann, 5 How. 83; York & Cumberland Railroad v. Myers, 18 How. 246; Heckers v. Fowler, 2 Wall. 123.
as the statute requires, by stipulation in writing, signed by the parties or their attorneys, and filed with the clerk. Flanders v. Tweed, 9 Wall. 425; Kearney v. Case, 12 Wall. 275; Gilman v. Illinois & Mississippi Telegraph Co., 91 U. S. 603 , 91 U. S. 614 ; Madison County v. Warren, 106 U. S. 622 ; Alexander County v. Kimball, 106 U. S. 623 , note. In Flanders v. Tweed, Mr. Justice Nelson, quoted the passage just cited from the opinion of Chief Justice Taney in Campbell v. Boyreau, and said that when a trial by jury had been waived, but there was no stipulation in writing, no finding of the facts, and no question upon the pleadings, the judgment must, according to the course of proceeding in previous cases, be affirmed, unless under very special circumstances this Court otherwise ordered. 9 Wall. 76 U. S. 429 , 76 U. S. 431 .
The most appropriate evidence of a compliance with the statute is a copy of the stipulation in writing filed with the clerk. But the existence of the condition upon which a review is allowed is sufficiently shown by a statement, in the finding of facts by the court, or in the bill of exceptions, or in the record of the judgment entry, such a stipulation was made in writing. Kearney v. Case, 12 Wall. 283, 79 U. S. 284 ; Dickinson v. Planters' Bank, 16 Wall. 250. So it has been held that a written consent of the parties, after a trial by jury has begun, to withdraw a juror and refer the case to a referee, in accordance with a statute of the state authorizing this course, is a sufficient stipulation in writing waiving a jury, and that when the court has authority to refer a case upon consent in writing only, an order expressed to be made "by consent of parties," that the case be referred, necessarily implies that such consent was in writing. Boogher v. Insurance Co., 103 U. S. 90 . See also United States v. Harris, 106 U. S. 629 , 106 U. S. 634 -635. And since the statute, as before, a judgment upon an agreed statement of facts or case stated, signed by the parties or their counsel, and entered of record, leaving no question of fact to be tried, and presenting nothing but a question of law, may be reviewed on error. Supervisors v. Kennicott, 103 U. S. 554 ; United States v. Eliason, 16 Pet. 291; Burr v. Des Moines Co., 1 Wall. 99; Campbell v. Boyreau, above cited.
Ill.Rev.Stat. 1874, c. 110 § 58. That statute governs proceedings in cases tried in the federal courts within that state. Rev.Stat. § 914; Townsend v. Jemison, 7 How. 706, 48 U. S. 722 ; Sawin v. Kenny, 93 U. S. 289 . And the rule thereby established must be applied to judgments lawfully rendered without a verdict. As the common counts in this declaration are indisputably good, the sufficiency of the special counts need not be considered.

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