No, you have set a precedent for refs to get it wrong, not the same thing.
Wrong/change rules; potato/potato. In either case, what the ref says, regardless of the rules, becomes attached to the result of the game.
And if you overturn the refs decision, on whose authority are we doing it? A majority vote of the league players?
Ideally the ref would recognize that what they did was in fact, not actually part of the rules we are playing by, and say they made a mistake. Everyone would be happy. If, in an extreme case (like the soon to be BAD disqualified form playing Beards), we'd probably have to have a league vote. Or let it stand.
Wrong/change rules; potato/potato. In either case, what the ref says, regardless of the rules, becomes attached to the result of the game.