Whitford v. Lee

The plaintiff claims, upon the facts above recited, that the October term of the court had expired by express limitation of the statute (§ 5451), and was not in session and could not lawfully be in session on December 21st, 1920, when the trial judge resumed the hearing of the cause, nor on January 3d, 1921, when judgment was rendered; that in consequence of General Statutes, § 5524, which provides that a judge who shall have commenced the trial of an action “shall have power to continue such trial and render judgment after expiration of the term or session of the court at which such trial…