Case Name: DANIEL NEWBOLD vs. ROBERT POLK
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1834
Citations: 1 Harr. 335
Docket Number: 
Parties: DANIEL NEWBOLD vs. ROBERT POLK.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 335–335

Head Matter:
DANIEL NEWBOLD vs. ROBERT POLK.
A justice cannot refer a cause but on the, application of a party.
Certiorari.
The record showed that the parties appeared and after opening the matter “the - justice deemed it necessary to have the case tried by referees” and referred it, without application from either of the parties.
R. II. Bayard for defendant.

Opinion:
Court.
The justice was bound to try the cause himself, unless one of the parties claimed a trial by freeholders. Big. 335.
Judgment reversed.