Powell v. Weger

Upon further consideration of the cause and appellants’ petition for rehearing, I have concluded that it would be error to reverse the Chancellor’s order referring the .taking of the testimony to a special examiner.

Upon careful reading of Slatcoff v. Dezen, Fla., 74 So.2d 59, on which reliance is placed to ground some phases of the opinion, I do not think that the case is a precedent for the original opinion of the Court in this case. In that case the reference to the master required him. to take the testimony and report his findings of fact and conclusions of law together with his…