Batchelor v. Albany City Insurance

This is an appeal from an order made at special term referring the issues in this action to a referee to hear and determine the same, for the reason that the trial of the action involves the examination of a long account within the meaning of section 271 of the Code. The appellant insists that this is not a case in which a reference can be ordered against his objection. It is, indeed, strange to find that, notwithstanding the books are full of cases in which the question of the power of the court to order a compulsory reference has been discussed, and an attempt made to solve and settle it,…