Tuskaloosa Bridge Co. v. Jemison
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa; Tried before the Hon. ¥m. S. Mudd. This was a motion to enter up an award of arbitrators as the judgment of the circuit court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa; Tried before the Hon. ¥m. S. Mudd. This was a motion to enter up an award of arbitrators as the judgment of the circuit court. The submission and award, on which the motion was predicated, were as follows : “Tuskaloosa, January 18, 1858. At a meeting of the president and directors of the Tuskaloosa Bridge Company, pursuant to a call by the president, and held by appointment at the office of J. M. Van Hoose in the city of Tuskaloosa; Robert Jemison, jr., president, and Seth King, director, being present, and J. M. Van Hoose being appointed…
1Opinion of the Court
RICE, O. J.—
The adjustment of controversies, whether existing in the form of pending suits or not, by arbitration, has uniformly been much favored by legislation, as well as by the common law-as understood in this State. Tankersley v. Richardson, 2 Stew. R. 130; Wright v. Bolton, 8 Ala. R. 548; Mobile Bay Road Co. v. Yeind, *47929 Ala. 325. And it is fit that our courts should incline to a liberal construction of our statutory provisions in relation to arbitration.—Bingham’s Trustee v. Guthrie, 7 Harris, 418. Such a course tends to advance the public 'interest-, by putting an end to litigation, and…
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