Ungar v. Valencia Realty Corp.

A justice at Special Term originally appointed a referee to hear and report upon a receiver’s account. The referee, apparently upon representation by the attorneys for one party that both sides desired a speedier hearing than it was practical for the referee to give, sent the cause back accompanied by a certificate reading as follows:

“ This case was referred to me by order dated June 6, 1927? but no order of reference was served upon me until October the 4th, 1927, by which time my calendar was so congested that the case could not be taken up except out of its order until the date set,…