Butterfield v. Beardsley

Graves, Ch. J.

This is an appeal by defendants from a decree of the circuit court for the county of Oakland in chancery.

The suit grew out of a contention respecting the distribution of a fund derived from the sale of certain coal oil property in Pennsylvania. The property disposed of was obtained in one of the many speculative joint adventures which became so common a few years since; and' after some vicissitudes it was conveyed away, and the complainant asserted a right to participate in the proceeds, but this claim was denied by the parties who had the handling of • the fund.

The earnestness…