Court Opinion

ID: 6311964
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-18 20:16:38.431192+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:59:06.424451
License: Public Domain

The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
The right of a party to appeal from an award of arbitrators made under a compulsory reference, has always been decided on motion to the court. I am not aware of any case in which the objection to a plaintiff’s right of appeal has been made the subject of a plea in bar by the defendant, and it would be inconvenient that it should be. To make the right of appeal a subject of pleading would embarrass the record with a'multiplicity of issues, would contribute to delay, and refer to a jury the decision of preliminary and collateral facts which heretofore have been summarily decided by the court on motion. It was in conformity with this practice that the defendant in the present instance moved the court to strike off the plaintiff’s appeal, which motion the court, after a hearing, rejected. The grounds on which this motion was heard and determined, do not appear on the record before us, and therefore we are not able to re-examine them. The defendant was concluded, so far as respected the court below, by the result of that motion, and could not, after having failed there, avail himself of it, by pleading either the same or any other objection to the appeal as a plea in bar.
Judgment affirmed.