West Virginia Code § 56-7-1

To what commissioner or person accounts to be referred; territorial
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jurisdiction; recommittal.
Accounts to be taken in any case shall be referred to a commissioner appointed under the
provisions of sections one and two, article five, chapter fifty-one of this code, to be named in
the decree or order unless the parties interested agree, or the court shall deem it proper,
that they be referred to some other person especially appointed a commissioener. Every
commissioner shall examine and report upon such accounts and matters as may be referred
to him by the court and such report may be recommitted to such commrissioner, or to some
other commissioner, for other and final report.
The court in any decree or order of reference may authorize and empower the commissioner,
to whom such cause or action is referred, to take proof and htear testimony touching the
matters referred to him in any county within this state; and, for such purpose when so
authorized, the jurisdiction and authority of such commissioner shall extend throughout the
state.
Whenever the commissioner to whom any sucsh cause or action was referred has made up
and filed his report, and there appears therefrom or from the evidence filed therewith, or
from the pleadings and evidence of the whole case, sufficient facts upon which the court can
decree or enter judgment, the sameg shall not be recommitted for further report, but a decree
or judgment shall be entered therein, according to the law and the very right of the case as
disclosed from the whole recored.

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