Williams v. Green , 1 Cole. & Cai. Cas. 470 ( 1805 )

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.