Federal Surety Co. v. A. Bentley & Sons Co.

SIMONS, District Judge.

While in form the appeals entitled as above are separate and independent, and have come to this court upon two separate records and two sets of briefs, and while some difficulty was experienced at the outset in apprehending the relationship to each other of the two causes, there being no apt explanation introductory to either set of briefs, it becomes clear upon consideration that the appeals seek to review the decision in the same ease below, and are appeals from a single decree therein entered. They will therefore be treated together as appeal and cross-appeal, as in…