Fischer v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““Under sucfi circumstances, consent being an adequate special reason in a case of the kind, it must be presumed that, as the judge appointed Mr. Shields, be determined that the consent was an adequate special reason. Nothing, therefore, remains but the irregularity of omitting to state the special reason in the decree. * * * The irregularity, if it was one, in a case of consent, of not specifying the consent in the decree as the special reason for the appointment, is a mere defect or want of form, which may be disregarded.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Northwestern Mut. Life Ins. v. Seaman