Dwight v. . St. John

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] If the reference ordered by the Supreme Court (on the defendant's motion to set aside the executions issued on the judgments and to order those judgments canceled) was without authority of law, then the whole decision of that matter was erroneous. But the reference was plainly within the meaning of section 271 of the Code, subdivision 3; and without the Code the court always had the right to refer to take proofs on matters upon which it desired fuller…