Cox v. Bates

Whether or not the bill of complaint comes within the rule as to community of interest as to parties and subject-matter, as laid down in the case of Hamilton v. Alabama Power Co., 195 Ala. 444, 70 So. 737, and cases there cited, and is sufficient as a bill of peace, strictly speaking, matters not, for the reason that it presents an independent equity. By it the complainant, as the assignee or successor of Mason, seeks an accounting and settlement of the partnership between said Mason and Carpenter ; and the bill is also, in the alternative, in the nature of a bill of interpleader in the event…