22 N.Y.S. 330 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1893
The rule is well settled that, when an arbitrator has delivered his award, his power is at an end. Flannery v. Sahagian, 134 N. Y. 85, 31 N. E. Rep. 319. The document of August 3d, signed by the arbitrator, discusses the question of fact involved in the litigation upon the decision of which the rights of the parties turned. It is, in matter and form, an opinion, and differs as widely from an award as a judicial opinion does from a formal decision, which is the basis of the judgment to be entered; and it is apparent from the correspondence be