People ex rel. Heath v. Circuit Judge

A suit was brought by relator in the circuit court for the county of Kent to obtain an accounting concerning partnership matters against Waters and Remington. A decree for accounting was made March 23, 1872, and the proceedings to account were begun and progressed before a circuit court commissioner. In March, 1877, an order was made for further proceedings before the commissioner then in office, who on the 26th day of April, 1876, had completed his examination and prepared to make his report, when the defendant Waters applied to open the reference and take further proofs and…