Story v. Brown
New York Court of Chancery
This was an application for an attachment against the defendants for not complying with the requisitions of a summons of the master requiring them to bring in their accounts before him, up to a certain period, in the form of debtor and creditor.
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This was an application for an attachment against the defendants for not complying with the requisitions of a summons of the master requiring them to bring in their accounts before him, up to a certain period, in the form of debtor and creditor. The original bill was filed by John Brown, and his two sons, J. D. Brown and G. W. Brown, against the present complainant T. W. Stoi-y, to settle a partnership account between the parties, and to restrain him from proceeding against them at law. After an order of reference to take the testimony and state the several accounts between the parties had…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
If the master is right in supposing that this case comes within the 107th rule of the court, and that. the several parties are required to bring in their accounts before him in the form of debtor and creditor, he erred in requiring the accounts to be exhibited up to a certain period only, and in receiving the account of the complainant without its being verified in the usual manner. Where a party is di= *114récted to account before a master, as contemplated by that rule, he must bring in his whole account, including debits and credits, and for the whole time for which he is held…
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