Mound City Co. v. Castleman

PHILIPS, District Judge.

The exceptions filed by the complainant to the answers of the defendants fitly enough illustrate the unnecessary delays in reaching a final decree in chancery cases. When at the March term, 1909, of this court, the complainant, after so much delay, filed its supplemental bill against the defendants’ protest, and the defendants expressed a desire to raise objections to certain portions of the amended bill, the court suggested, in order to expedite the final hearing of the cause, that the defendants make answer, in which they could avail themselves on the final hearing…