Spring v. Domestic Sewing-Machine Co.

Nixon, D. J.

An interlocutory decree was entered in the above-stated case, in favor of the complainants, on the twenty-second day of May, 1882, and an order of reference made to the master for an account. The defendant company now comes in and asks for a rule upon the complainants to show cause why the decree should not be opened and a rehearing ordered. Four reasons are assigned for such an order, the first and second of which are frivolous, but the third and fourth seem to have merit. The third raises the question of the •want of jurisdiction of the court in equity, in view of the recent…