Rowland v. Maddock

This is a bill in equity by two creditors of one Tebbitt, an absconding debtor, against the defendants, who, as a committee of Tebbitt’s creditors, had undertaken to recover from him his property and distribute it among such creditors as assigned their claims to them.

The defendants demurred to the bill of complaint, the demurrer was overruled and an appeal taken. An answer was then filed, the case went to a master, seven exceptions were taken by the defendants, and an interlocutory decree was made sustaining four of the seven. From this the plaintiffs took an appeal, the suit went back to the…