New York Supreme Court May 6, 1850 (Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church v. Wood)

By the Court, Hand, J.

This judgment was entered up under the code of 1848. In this class of actions, if the taking of an account, .or the proof of any fact, was necessary to enable the court to give judgment, &c. the court, instead of taking the account or hearing the proofs, could have ordered a reference.