Porter v. Cooke

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

On the pleadings the suit was a class suit to hold the defendants as members with plaintiffs1 of a partnership enterprise, to charge the defendants with fraud upon, and breach of trust as to plaintiffs, and to lay claim to, and obtain the fruits of, properties of the partnership enterprise which it was charged the defendants had gotten hold of and were misappropriating to their own use.

The prayer was for the appointment of a receiver, an adjudication that the properties described be declared to be properties of the partnership, that there be an accounting, and that…