Rogers v. Mayer
| Decision Date | 28 February 1890 |
| Citation | 23 N.E. 836,151 Mass. 279 |
| Parties | ROGERS et al. v. MAYER. |
| Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court |
February 28, 1890
HEADNOTES
D.C. Linscott, for appellants.
C.T. Gallagher, for appellee.
This is an appeal from the judgment of the superior court accepting the award of a referee under a rule of court. The only ground upon which the plaintiff claims that the judgment was erroneous is that the referee erred in the construction which he gave to the written contract declared on. That was one of the questions submitted to the referee, and on which his decision is final. The plaintiff argues that, although the submission was general, the referee had authority to submit questions of law to the court, or to decide them subject to the revision of the court, and that his intention to do so is to be inferred from the fact that he stated the grounds of his decision. But we cannot so construe the report. The referee states the evidence, and the grounds of his decisions of law and of fact, somewhat in detail, but this is obviously and expressly rather for the satisfaction of the parties than because the referee had doubts of the correctness of his decisions, or an intention to present any question of law or fact to the court. The question of the construction of the contract was obviously a material question in the case, and the general submission of it to the referee, and his absolute decision of it, show that the parties and the referee regarded the submission and the decision as final. Ellicott v. Coffin, 106 Mass. 365; Carter v. Carter, 109 Mass. 309. Exceptions overruled.
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