ART. 75] CASES BY CONSENT. 1663

1888, art. 75, sec. 52. 1888, ch. 410.

53. Upon the finding of the jury on any such issue or
issues, judgment may be entered for such sum as shall be so
agreed or ascertained as aforesaid, with or without costs, as
the case may be, on which execution may issue as in other
cases, unless otherwise agreed, subject to the right of either
side to move to set aside the verdict or for ,a new trial, and
such judgment shall have all the effect and incidents of other
judgments at law.

Ibid. sec. 53. 1888. ch. 410.

54. Parties may after action docketed at any time before
judgment, by consent and order of the court, state any ques-
tion or questions of law in a special case for the opinion of
the court without any pleading.

Ibid sec. 54. 1888, ch. 410.

55. The parties may, if they think fit, enter into agreement
in writing, filed in the cause, that, upon the judgment of the
court being given in the affirmative or negative of the question
or questions of law raised by such special case, or any of
them, a sum of money fixed in said agreement by the parties,
or to be ascertained by the court, or in such manner as the
court may direct, shall be paid by one of the parties to the
other of them, either with or without the costs of the action,
and the judgment of the court may be entered for such sum
as shall be so agreed or ascertained, with or without costs as
the case may be; and execution may at once issue on such
judgment, unless otherwise agreed, or unless stayed according
to law on appeal or error, and such judgment shall have all
the effect and incidents of other judgments at law; in case
there shall be no agreement with regard to costs, they shall be
governed by the law applying to costs in other actions at law.

1898, ch. 241.

56. The "next friend," or prochein ami, who shall have
brought any suit at law for the benefit of any infant or infants,
shall have authority to compromise and settle said suit and the
cause of action; provided, that whenever such "next friend"
shall not be a parent of the infant or a person standing in loco
parents, the consent of such parent or other person shall first
be had and obtained; and if both parents be dead and there be
no other person having the care and custody of the infant, the
authority of the orphans' court of the city or county in which