Brown v. Conway

The record does not disclose why the cause was transferred from the law to the equity side of the calendar. The demand for an accounting is not exclusively cognizable in equity. Originally, matters of account which were proper for an action of account were cognizable exclusively at law;' but the old common-law action of account was early assumed by courts of equity, and its jurisdiction may, as a general rule, ¿t-tach whenever the subject-matter cannot be fully investigated at law. It is the general rule that, in order that an' equity court may obtain jurisdiction of an accounting, three…