84 Va. 800 | Va. | 1888
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case is as follows: The appellant, Henry W. Doyle, and the appellee, Samuel Patterson, were engaged in the brick-making business. Being unable to agree upon a settlement of their affairs without the interposition of others, they first laid the books, papers, receipts, etc.,-before an accountant to compile in a book a statement of the said business for the better
The agreement of submission was in writing, and duly signed, and the award thereunder covers in terms the disputed items, and is signed by two of the three, duly selected according to the terms of the submission. The three constituted a court duly chosen by the parties’ own selection. At the time Dabney withdrew, and refused to have any more to do with the matter, all the items had been passed on, and it was because he was overruled that he lost his temper, and engaged in a fight with Tinsley; but, when he withdrew, the two remaining were competent to act—quite as much so as when he was present. It was not in his power to defeat everything, and throw the parties into court, and remand them to further
In this case we perceive no error in the decree of the corporation court of Lynchburg complained of, and appealed from here, and the same will be affirmed.
Degree aeeirmed.