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65 Me. 410

Plummer v. Stone

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided May 31, 1876

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1876-05-31

<p> Beferee. Trial. </p> <p>When a cause is referred to he decided upon legal principles, and the referee neither reports nor is requested to report the facts or the questions of law arising thereon, his award is final.</p>

Decided 1876-05-31

Appleton, C. J.

¶1This ease was submitted to the referee to be heard and decided upon legal principles. Although such was the case, the law and the facts were primarily to be decided by him. Latham v. Wilton, 23 Maine, 125. The referee has not submitted any questions of law arising in the case to our decision. lie might have done so, but he did not. He was not requested to report the evidence, and without such request he was under no obligation to do so. His conclusion is final.

¶2 Exceptions overruled.

Walton, Daneortii, Virgin and Libbey, JJ., concurred.
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