Yarwood v. Billings

— This is an action in which the plaintiff sues the defendants for the partition of certain personal property owned hy them as tenants in common, and for an accounting of the profits received therefrom by the defendants while it was in their possession and used by them. Prom the judgment both sides appeal.

Talcing up the defendants’ appeal, they first contend that this is a suit in equity for an accounting between partners and that a court of equity in such a suit has no power to enter a money judgment against any of the parties thereto. This is not the rule. A court of equity has power in…