Dainese v. Kendall
| Decision Date | 15 November 1886 |
| Citation | 7 S.Ct. 65,119 U.S. 53,30 L.Ed. 305 |
| Parties | DAINESE v. KENDALL, Ex'r, etc., and others |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
J. W. Douglass and G. L. Douglass, for appellant.
J. S. Edwards and Job Barnard, for appellees.
When this case was called for hearing a motion was made to dismiss because the decree appealed from was not a final decree. The facts are these: The bill was filed by Dainese, as the holder of one of three notes of Gordon, secured by a deed of trust from Gordon to McPherson, trustee, against the maker of the notes, the trustee, and John E. Kendall, the holder of the other notes, praying (1) that a sale which had been made of the trust property by McPherson, the trustee, acting under the deed of trust, to Kendall, be set aside, and a new sale ordered; (2) that Kendall be required to account for rents of the trust property which had been collected by him while in possession under a power of attorney from Gordon, authorizing him to receive the rents, and, after paying expenses and cer- tain specified demands, apply the proceeds upon the debt secured by the trust; and (3) for an account of what was due to himself and to Kendall upon the notes they severally held, and that the proceeds of the sale which had been made, or, if that should be set aside, of any that might thereafter be made, be divided between them in proportion to the amounts due them, respectively.
Afterwards, and before any decree, McPherson filed a cross-bill, praying an account between Dainese and Kendall, and an apportionment of the proceeds of the sale among them, and also an allowance to himself of commissions and counsel fees. The court, at special term, set aside the sale, but before anything further was done Kendall appealed to the general term. At the general term the order of the special term was reversed, the sale ratified and confirmed, and the cause remanded to the special term 'for further proceedings.' When the case got back to the special term Kendall moved a reference to an auditor to make distribution of the proceeds of the sale, but while this motion was pending, and before anything else was done, Dainese took this appeal.
From this statement it is apparent that the decree appealed from is not a 'final decree' within the meaning of that term as used in the statute allowing appeals to this court. The litigation of the parties on the merits of the case has not been terminated. An account of the rents collected by Kendall while in possession has not been taken;...
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