Rule 19-8. Report

(a) The report of a committee, attorney trial referee or special assignment probate judge shall state, in separate and consecutively numbered paragraphs, the facts found and the conclusions drawn therefrom. It should not contain statements of evidence or excerpts from the evidence. The report should ordinarily state only the ultimate facts found; but if the committee, attorney trial referee or special assignment probate judge has reason to believe that the conclusions as to such facts from subordinate facts will be questioned, it may also state the subordinate facts found proven; and any committee, attorney trial referee or special assignment probate judge having reason to believe that the rulings will be questioned may state them with a brief summary of such facts as are necessary to explain them; and the committee, attorney trial referee or special assignment probate judge should state such claims as were made by the parties and which either party requests be stated.

(b) The committee, attorney trial referee or special assignment probate judge may accompany the report with a memorandum of decision including such matters as it may deem helpful in the decision of the case, and, in any case in which appraisal fees may be awarded by the court, shall make a finding and recommendation as to such appraisal fees as it deems reasonable.

Committee Notes

(P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 434.) (Amended June 28, 1999, to