Stanley v. Beck

FOSTER, Justice.

This is an appeal from the final settlement of an administration had in equity.

There was no reference to the register and no report from a master upon the status of the accounts of the administrator. The presiding judge heard much of the testimony from the witnesses in open court, and some of it was taken before a commissioner.

We said in Alexander v. Hicks, ante, p. 243, -5 So.2d 781, that equity procedure has wisely provided for a reference where the register may see and hear the witnesses, state an account disclosing his findings on the several issues. Provision is made for…