Baldwin v. Barrett

Gilbert, J. The necessary effect of the submission was to extinguish the judgment, and to waive the appeal. It related to the same subject-matter, and provided'for the entry of a judgment in the Supreme Court upon the award. The parties to it had by it secured a re-trial of the controversy between them. If it had . been made pending the suit in which the judgment was recovered, it is conceded that its effect would have been to discontinue the suit, and such, no doubt, is the rule of law. The reason is, that parties have selected another tribunal for the trial of the case. Larkin v. Robbins, 2 Wend. 505. The same reason applies after judgment as well as before, unless it be agreed that the judgment shall remain as security or for some other collateral purpose. The submission shows the intention of the parties to abandon the litigation in court, and to resort to another method of determining the controversy between them. This necessarily implies a mutual abandonment of all previous proceedings. To use the language of Beardsley, J., in Van Slyke v. Lettice, 6 Hill, 610, “the parties intended to blot out the suit, from its commencement before the justice to the appeal to the county court.” See also Grosvenor v. Hunt, 11 How. 355; Miller v. Van Anken, 1 Wend. 516. The fact that the submission, has not been acted on does not alter its legal effect upon the judgment and the appeal. Larkin v. Robbins, supra. The order of the county court is right, and should be affirmed.