Long v. . Gooch

The referee made liis report, embodying his findings of law and fact .at spring term, 1880, and being ad verse to the plaintiffs, they were allowed thirty days in .which to except. No exceptions being filed, the two defendants who had answered the complaint, moved the court at the next and each successive term for an order of confirmation. The motion was not acted on at two of the terms, in consequence of the absence of the papers in the cause ; at another, a continuance was granted ; and at fall term, 1881, the presiding judge gave “ leave to the plaintiffs, upon payment of all the costs…