Kinkead v. Securo

Maxwell, Judge:

This review involves questions of procedure and right to appeal from a decree overruling the demurrer to an answer and directing a reference to a commissioner in chancery.

To the plaintiff’s bill, which had for its purpose the winding up of the affairs of a partnership and the obtaining of a decretal judgment by the plaintiff against the defendant, the defendant’s demurrer was overruled. The court required him to answer within thirty days after the adjournment of the term at which the order was entered. An answer was not filed within the period fixed by the court, but about two…