Case Name: Sickles vs. Fort
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1834-08-07
Citations: 12 Wend. 199
Docket Number: 
Parties: Sickles vs. Fort.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 199–199

Head Matter:
Sickles vs. Fort.
Referees may require the payment of costs as a condition to the postpone, ment of a hearing.
The question here was, whether referees may impose the payment of costs as a condition to granting the postponement of a hearing.
August 7.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Nelson, J.
For good cause shown, the referees have power to postpone a hearing. 2 R. S. 384, § 43. The postponement being submitted to their discretion, they may impose such, terms as are usually imposed by courts upon putting off trials.