Monitor Iron Works Co. v. Ketchum

A former decision of this cause was inadvertently reported in 44 Wis., 126, after a rearguraent had been ordered. The statement of the case there made will not be repeated.

The circuit court referred the cause to a referee to hear, try and determine. The reference was compulsory, and the question of its regularity, or the power of the court to mate it, was not raised on the former argument. The reárgument was granted mainly upon that question.

If the trial of any issue of fact in the cause required the examination of a long account, the reference was proper. Tay. Stats., 1499, § 25; R. S., 761,…