
    GENERAL COURT,
    MAY TERM, 1803.
    Harris vs. Dorsey.
    If the amount of an award in fa-vour of a plaintiff’, on a reference from tlic court be at the time of aWarding, less than the court has jurisdiction over, títere must be judgment of non suit,, though at the time of entering huclt judgment, (such sum, with the interest added to it, would be sufficient to support the courts jurisdiction.
    This case bad beers some time before referred to arbitrators, who had awarded a less sum in fayour of ..the plaintiff, than the jurisdiction of the court extended to. The award remained in court unacted upon until this term, when
    
      Shaaff, for the jdaintiff,
    moved to have judgment entered on it for the plaintiff, on the ground that, although the sum awarded did not at the time of awarding amount to a sufficient sum to support the court’s jurisdiction, yet that it would at this time, with, the interest calculated on it.
   But tub court directed a nonsuit to be entered,  