Case Name: Williams against Green
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1805-08
Citations: 3 Cai. 129
Docket Number: 
Parties: Williams against Green.
Judges: 
Reporter: Caines' Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 129–129

Head Matter:
Williams against Green.
Rule for reference at a circuit is void, award of course set aside, but as act of court, without costs.

Opinion:
IT was ruled that a circuit court cannot order a cause to be referred under the statute. That any award, therefore, under a rule for a reference granted at a circuit, must be .set aside, but without costs, as the rule, though a nullity, ⅛ an act of the court.
Act for the amendment of the law. 1 Rev. Laws 346. Sec. 2.