Burnham v. Spokane Mercantile Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

This is an appeal taken by the plaintiffs from orders made by the court after the entry of the final decree allowing certain claims against a fund in the hands of the court for distribution, and directing the receiver to pay such claims from the funds in his hands. We will notice the second and third assignments of error, for, as we view the law governing the propositions involved in these assignments, they settle, to a certain extent, the rights of the respondents in this case. It appears that the cause was tried originally before Judge…