Yarbro v. Purser

Citations

• 114 Miss. 75
• 74 So. 425

Syllabus

<p>1. Arbitration and Award. Effect. Admissibility in evidence.</p> <p>The legal effect of an arbitration is to make a' compromise settlement, and a compromise settlement when full and complete and fairly made operates as a merger of and bars all right to recovery on all claims and causes of action included therein and in ease a suit is afterwards brought on any such claims such arbitration is admissible in evidence.</p> <p>2. Compromise and Settlement. Pleading. Motion to strike.' '</p> <p>If a compromise and settlement pleaded by way of answer is untrue • or void for any reason the plaintiff should either deny the plea or plead matter in confession and avoidance arid thus have the matter brought to final issue and submitted to the jury on proper instructions and not by motion have the plea stricken from the record.</p>