26 N.C. App. 712 | N.C. Ct. App. | 1975
In Keith v. Silvia, 233 N.C. 328, 64 S.E. 2d 178 (1951), all parties to a reference continued to participate in the reference after the day fixed for the final report. After the referee’s report was filed adverse to the plaintiff, plaintiff attempted to have the referee removed for failing and refusing to file his report on time. The Court said, “[a]ny cause for objection that the referee failed to file the report as in said order directed was waived.” 233 N.C. at 331. (Emphasis added.) Therefore, we find that the plaintiffs, by continuing to participate in the reference, have waived any right to object to the failure of the referee to conduct the hearings and file his report within the
These are the only assignments of error properly brought forward for review. Therefore, for the reasons stated above, the cause is remanded for further hearings, if required, and for findings, not inconsistent with this opinion, on the question of damages to crops and timber and for compliance with G.S. 38-3 (c) so that the location of the true boundary line may be properly established. In all other respects, the judgment below is affirmed.
Affirmed in part.
Remanded in part.