United States Rubber Co. v. American Oak Leather Co.

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

While two appeals have been docketed, they are from a single decree, and are presented on one record. It is not apparent why a joint appeal, perhaps with separate specifications of error for each appellant, would not have been proper; and, indeed, it is not clear that the appeals ought not eacli to be dismissed on the ground that without a severance neither appellant can prosecute an appeal to which the other is not a party.

The decree in question is an interlocutory one, made upon a motion for the appointment of a receiver. The hearing was had upon the bill, answers,…