Blood v. Shine
Supreme Court of Florida
Error to Leon Circuit Court where this case was tried before Judge Baltzell. The Court erred in refusing to admit the award in evidence and in deciding that it was void upon its face. « The award of the umpire Argyle is a valid award. He adopted the statement of accounts made and agreed to by the arbitrators, and proceeded to decide the other items about which the arbitrators disagreed. Having added both the sums together, he awards the total amount to the plaintiff.
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Error to Leon Circuit Court where this case was tried before Judge Baltzell. The Court erred in refusing to admit the award in evidence and in deciding that it was void upon its face. « The award of the umpire Argyle is a valid award. He adopted the statement of accounts made and agreed to by the arbitrators, and proceeded to decide the other items about which the arbitrators disagreed. Having added both the sums together, he awards the total amount to the plaintiff. This the umpire had a right to do, and had he done otherwise he would have deviated from the usual practice in such cases. See…
1Opinion of the Court
Douglas, Chief Justice,
delivered the following opinion:
This is an action of debt upon an arbitration bond by which the parties agreed to submit to the arbitrament and award of certain persons therein named, all and all manner of actions, cause or causes of action, bills, bonds, agreements, deeds, accounts, quarrels, controversies and demands whatsoever at any time or times theretofore, *131bad, made, brought, prosecuted, done, suffered, committed or depending, by or between the said parties or either of them, of and concerning a partnership in a certain brick yard and the profits and losses…
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