Case Name: Corder et uxor versus Mays
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1861-07-25
Citations: 3 Grant 135
Docket Number: 
Parties: Corder et uxor versus Mays.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Grant)
Volume: 3
Pages: 135–135

Head Matter:
Corder et uxor versus Mays.
July 25, 1861,
A confession of an award before a board of arbitrators with a right to appeal therefrom within thirty days, and without any judgment entered thereon will not support an execution.
Error to tbe Court of Common Pleas of Blair County.

Opinion:
The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court delivered
by Lowrie, J.
Under a rule for a compulsory arbitration, the defendant's counsel confessed an award in favor of the plaintiff, subject to an appeal within thirty days, and without any judg-' ment entered thereon the plaintiff issued execution. We know of no statute or customary law or common practice that sanctions such a form of proceeding. There may be such a practice in Blair County, or with the lawyers concerned in this cause, but their peculiarities do not make law. The arbitration law makes a true award a judgment in such a case if not appealed from in twenty days; but we know of no law for treating a confession as amounting to a judgment. And we would not now, in the-face of tbe affidavits of the defendant and considering the loose way in which the liability of the wife of defendant is set forth in the plaintiff's statement, think of curing the error by entering the judgment here.
The confession of award and the execution issued thereon set aside and a procedendo awarded.