Manchester v. Manchester

These three cases were heard together before this court. The first is a suit in equity for the dissolution of a partnership and the second is an action in assumpsit, both of which were brought in the superior court. In the equity action the respondent’s motion to adjudge the receiver in contempt and in the law action the defendant’s motion to discharge the receiver from garnishment were each denied by a justice of the superior court, and respectively as respondent and as defendant he thereafter prosecuted to this court an appeal from the decree in the equity suit and a bill of exceptions from…