Court Opinion

ID: 6143804
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-05 14:50:41.236288+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:54:45.580750
License: Public Domain

Duer, Judge.
With all possible respect for the judge who made the decision that has been cited, it is impossible for me to follow it. I can not say that a day appointed for a hearing before a referee is a circuit or term general or special, or that his private docket, if he keeps any, is a calendar. In order to meet a supposed equity, I can not stretch a statutory provision to a case which its terms can not, without violence, be made to embrace. If the case is a casus omissus, the legislature must supply it.
Even were the terms of the Code so ambiguous, that by a possible construction they might cover the rejected charge, I still should be very unwilling to allow it. Proceedings before referees,«as usually conducted, are sufficiently protracted and expensive, and it is not at all desirable to increase the temptations to delay. I must affirm the decision of the clerk. ■
Oakley, Ch. J. and Bosworth, J., concurred.