Nick v. Craig

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

Six of a syndicate of twenty persons, who were the equitable owners of a tract of land, each of the twenty having the same financial interest therein, filed a bill in equity for an account, against the substituted trustee, who held the legal title for the syndicate, and a land company, which had agreed to develop and sell the land for the benefit of the syndicate; the other equitable owners being made defendants, in order that all possible interests might be parties to the suit. The decree, as originally entered, awarded certain sums to each of the plaintiffs,…