Henry A. Knott Company v. The Chesapeake And Potomac Telephone Company Of West Virginia

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• when a new special master was appointed to a case, “[a] hearing de novo before a new successor master or before the district court must be conducted if the case requires the trier of fact to make credibility determinations concerning the testimony of witnesses”
• “The problem of the successor judge . . . is that one person hears the testimony and another person makes the factual findings without having seen or heard the witnesses. . . . Deference to such findings, by . . . an appellate court, would be misplaced in such a case.”
• “The problem of the successor judge . . . is that one person hears the testimony and another person makes the factual findings without having seen or heard the witnesses. . . . Deference to such findings, by . . . an appellate court, would be misplaced in such a case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).