Case ID: cal-unrep_1/html/0014-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TERRY. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JAMES TRYON, Respondent, v. DECATUR STRATTON and L. B. VAIL, Appellants.
    No. 924;
    January 22, 1856.
    Reference. — A Referee must, in His Report, state tlie facts found and the conclusions of law.
    APPEAL from Eleventh Judicial District, Yolo County.
    Cross & Thompson for respondent; Reed & Aukeny for appellants.
   TERRY. J.

— The report of the referee in this case does not state the facts found by him. In the case of Lambert v. Smith & McGHlrey, 3 Cal. 408, the court held “that” the report of a referee like the finding of a court should state the facts found and the conclusions of law. Without this the parties would be remediless and their rights concluded in many cases by the arbitrary decision of a referee.

The judgment of the court below is reversed and the cause remanded.

I concur: Tleydenfeldt, J.