Long v. Honeycutt

Defendant assigns as error the order of compulsory reference. This assignment of error is overruled.

G.S. 1-189 provides in relevant part: “Where the parties do not consent, the court may, upon the application of either, or of its own motion, direct a reference in the following cases: 1. Where the trial of an issue of fact requires the examination of a long account on either side; in which case the referee may be directed to hear and decide the whole issue, or to report upon any specific question of fact involved therein.” It is said in Rudisill v. Hoyle, 254 N.C. 33, 118 S.E. 2d 145: “The…