Beeler v. Bullitt

OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Owsi/ey.

This writ of error is brought to reverse a decree of the couil below, pronounced in a suit brought in that court by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs, a pail of whom are infants. The decree is made absolute against all the defendants in that court, without giving the infants a day after they arrive at full age to shew cause. This, yve apprehend, is a fatal objection to the decree: for *12courts of chancery at all times are careful of the rights of infants, and to preserve and guard their interests have adopted as a general rule of practice, never…