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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
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58 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
of this court interposed as a measure of precaution must be with-
drawn.
To leave the injunction in force and appoint a receiver to
settle up the affairs of this partnership, without showing the ex-
istence of one or the other of these causes for such interposition,.
would be to establish a principle which might make this court the
manager of half the partnerships in the state, a result which,
in the former order, was shown to be deprecated by a distin-
guished Chancellor of the parent country.
[In the course of the subsequent proceedings in the cause, a
decree was passed for an account and referring the case to a
special Auditor for the purpose of stating the account from the
pleadings and proofs in the case, the books of the firm and such
other proof as the parties may produce before him upon giving
the usual notice. The decree also directed that before he should
proceed to act as Auditor in the case, he should make oath be-
fore some justice of the peace that he will well and faithfully
execute the duties of his said office as Auditor in this case with-
out favor, affection, partiality or prejudice.
Upon the coming in of his report, various exceptions were
filed to it by the defendant. Among others that it states the
Auditor's fee at the amount of $863 33, which the exceptant
charges to be enormous, unreasonable and excessive. The
character of the other exceptions sufficiently appears from the
following opinion of the Chancellor delivered at the hearing
thereof.]
THE CHANCELLOR:
This case is brought before the court and has been argued by
counsel upon exceptions to the report of the special Auditor,
and the several accounts accompanying the same, filed on the
24th of April, 1849.
The decree for an account passed on the 1st of August, 1848,
by which the special Auditor was appointed, as is usual, directed
that he should, before proceeding to act, make oath that he would

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