Earle v. Detroit & Security Trust Co.

This appeal and cross-appeal in this case raise but one proposition which is necessary -t'o be discussed in this opinion. That is the authority of a chancellor to make an order before the pleadings are settled requiring and directing a defendant in a pending chancery cause to appear before the chancellor to answer oral interrogatories and submit' to an examination concerning the allegations of a bill of complaint upon which extraordinary relief pendente lite and final is being sought with reference to a trust estate being handled by him.

After filing their amended bill of complaint seeking to…