Rozema v. Quinn

Plaintiff sued to foreclose mechanic liens on two pieces of property. Defendants, the owners, filed their appearance, a demand for trial by jury and a counterclaim for monies expended, and to be expended, because of plaintiff’s faulty work on some 27 other properties. Plaintiff filed his answer and replication and the issues were thusly joined.

On defendant-counterclaimants’ motion the entire cause was then referred to a master in chancery. Plaintiff raised no objection to the reference.

After the close of plaintiff’s case, and when defendant-counterclaimants began their proof, the master…