Case Name: Clark vs. L. A. G. B. Grant
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1829-02
Citations: 2 Wend. 257
Docket Number: 
Parties: Clark vs. L. A. G. B. Grant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 257–257

Head Matter:
Clark vs. L. A. G. B. Grant.
A party attending a ref* erence is entirest; but ,ifextends only to a reasonah™ringftei
Motion to discharge the defendant from arrest. The de- • fendant, whose residence is m the county of Orleans, attended a reference at Rochester, in the county of Monroe, in a cause in which he was a party. The hearing before the ref-_ , ,, - T , . crees was closed on the seventh day oí January, and a report was made on the ninth day of January, at 10 o’clock in the morning. The defendant remained in Rochester to hear the report of the referees, and after it was made, was engaged with his counsel in preparing the necessary papers to set the same aside. At five o’clock, P. M. of the ninth of January, he was arrested on a copias at the suit of the plaintiff, who was the defendant in the cause which had been submitted to reference, and held to bail. He moved to be discharged from the arrest.

Opinion:
By the Court, Sutherland, J.
A party attending a reference is entitled to privilege, the same as when attending a trial; but it lasts only during the hearing and a reasonable time after to enable the party to return to his residence. A party might be indulged in remaining to learn the verdict of a jury, who cannot separate, after a cause is committed, until they pronounce a verdict. It is not so with a report of referees. Referees may separate, and a report may not be made until long after the hearing. The party being engaged in preparing to set aside the report, gives him no claim to be exempted from arrest.
Motion denied.