Case Name: FOX v. EALER
Court: Philadelphia District Court
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1837-12-18
Citations: 2 Miles 169
Docket Number: 
Parties: FOX v. EALER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases determined in the district court for the city and county of Philadelphia
Volume: 2
Pages: 169–170

Head Matter:
FOX v. EALER.
December 18, 1837.
Rule to show cause why the submission should not be made a ride of court.
If parties in a cause pending, submit all matters in variance between them to arbitrators, without agreeing that the submission shall be made a rule of court, the court will not grant an application to make the same a rule of court.
THIS was a suit brought to June term, 1835, No. 441. While the cause was pending, to wit on January 27th, 1837, the parties entered into a bond, and submission to arbitrators, of “ all matters in variance between them.” The submission was not entitled in the cause pending, nor did it contain any reference to it. The arbitrators awarded in favour of the plaintiff 555 dollars 2 cents.
The plaintiff then obtained a rule to show cause why the submission should not be made a rule of court.
II. Hubbell, for plaintiff.
Goodman, for defendant.
Authorities cited: Watson on Jlrb. 31, 140; Act of 18th June, 1836, relating to reference, &c., (Stroud’s Pur A. lit. Arbitration); 3 Watts 320, 329; 2 Watts 471; 4 Wash. C. C. R. 325; 1 Dali 364.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.—
This rule must be discharged. The first, second, and third sections of the act of 10th June, 1838, contemplate that the parties shall agree that the submission shall be made a rule of court. Here there is no such agreement. Our act is evidently framed on the basis of the provisions of the statute of the 9th and 10th William III. cap. 15, which have been repeatedly construed to require an agreement that the submission shall be made a rule of court, before it will be made so. Wats, on Jlrb. 25.
Rule discharged.