440 CHANCERY. [ART. 16

the question intended to be raised, and it shall be divided into
paragraphs, consecutively numbered; and upon the hearing of
such case, the court and the parties shall be at liberty to refer
to the whole contents of such documents, and the court shall
be at liberty to draw from the facts and documents stated and
referred to in such special case, any inference which the court
might' have drawn therefrom if such facts and documents were
proved under formal pleading. And upon such special case
stated, the court may decree as upon bill and answer, and such
decree shall be enforced as other decrees are; but such decree
shall in no case conclude or affect the rights of any other per-
sons than those who are parties to such special case, and those
claiming under or through such parties; and the right of appeal
shall exist as in cases of decrees upon bill and answer.
Rogers v. Sisters of Charity, 97 Md. 551.

Ibid. sec. 186. Rule 49.

199. Married women may join in any special case stated
with their husbands, and infants having guardians, and lunatics
having committees may join in such special case by their guar-
dians, or committees, in respect to any interest or right repre-
sented by such guardians or committees; and all the parties to
such special case shall sign the same in person or by solicitor,
and the appearance of the parties shall be entered to said case,
as to a cause regularly instituted by formal proceedings; and
all the parties to such special case shall be subject to the juris-
diction of the court in the same manner as if the plaintiff in the
special case had filed a bill against the parties named as defen-
dants thereto, and such defendants had appeared to such bill,
and by answer admitted the facts thereof.
Aukam v. Zantzinger, 94 Md. 425.

1892, ch. 654, sec. 186 A.

200. When any plaintiff, or any defendant, who has been
duly summoned to answer a bill or petition in any of the equity
courts of this State shall die before final decree, leaving heirs
at law or representatives who should be made parties to said
cause, or any one has been omitted as a plaintiff or defendant
in any equity cause, it shall not be necessary to file on amended
bill or petition in said cause, but on a short petition setting
forth their interest in said cause they shall be made a party
plaintiff, or if a defendant, the court shall cause a summons to
be issued requiring said party or parties to answer said bill or