Case Name: Kendrick against Overstreet
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1817-09
Citations: 3 Serg. & Rawl. 357
Docket Number: 
Parties: Kendrick against Overstreet.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Sergeant & Rawle)
Volume: 3
Pages: 357–357

Head Matter:
Kendrick against Overstreet.
September.
A writ of error does not lie upon a refusal by the Court below, to strike off an appeal from the award of arbitrators.
In Error.
ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county.
Overstreet appealed to the Court below from an award of arbitrators appointed under the act of 20th March, 1810. The plaintiff moved the Court to strike off the appeal, but they refused the motion.
Baldwin moved to quash the writ of error.
M'Donald, contra.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
(Tilghman C. J. absent.) The writ of error issued improvidently. The cause is still pending. The plaintiff says the report of arbitrators is a final judgment, the appeal not being taken according to law, and that by permitting this irregular appeal to stand on the docket, he is debarred from proceeding to obtain the fruit of his judgment. But an appeal in fact taken, suspends the effect of the report until that appeal be finally disposed of in the Court below, and therefore if the appeal had been quashed, a writ of error would have lain in favour of the appellant. If the Court have erred in refusing to quash, it cannot be taken advantage of until final judgment is rendered: and the plaintiff, if the judgment be against him, may then have the matter examined on a writ of error.
Writ of error quashedi