Butterly v. Deering

The right of a referee who has been paid for making bis report to further compensation for settling *76a case appears not to have before been judicially considered. The present instance is exceptional. Defendant made a proposed case, to which plaintiff submitted 1,615 amendments, out of which 1,163 had to he passed upon by the referee, in which there were repeated hearings of counsel. Of these, 126 amendments were not disposed of merely by allowance or disallowance, but, in the referee’s opinion, had to be modified by him so as fairly to represent the facts.

The appellant now moves to require the…