Manninen v. Liss

The appellants, proceeding by writ of certiorari, challenged the validity of a ruling of a court commissioner to whom the matter of the custody of a minor child had been referred by the circuit court. The first question now before us is as to whether the report and decision of the referee in that matter is without effect because of the alleged unreasonable length of time the court commissioner held the matter before making his final report. We are presented with a situation in which the defeated party must be held to have waived the objection, if ground for one existed. It does not appear…