Burden v. Burden Iron Co.

The testimony in this action was taken before Hr. Justice Chase, while he was a trial justice, but prior" to his decision thereof he was appointed a member of the Appellate Division. Upon stipulation by the attorneys the case was submitted to me upon the record as ‘made up by Justice Chase.

The time necessarily consumed in the examination of the very voluminous record and the authorities cited by the respective attorneys has been such, in order to intelligently pass upon the proposed findings submitted, that I shall give only a very brief opinion embodying some of the reasons for the action…