Case ID: sarat-ch-sent_1/html/1070-05.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Monroe v. Charles A. Keeler et al.
    
    
      Creditors’ bill&emdash;lief erence directed to master near residence of defendant&emdash;Object of Rule 190.
    
    J. Rhoades l'or complainants.
    Otis Allen for defendants.
   The chancellor decided in this case that the settled practice of the court on *creditors bills is not to compel the defendant to attend at a great distance from home for the purpose of assigning his property to the receiver and submitting to an examination; but the court will direct the reference to a master near the residence of the defendant, unless there are some special circumstances in the case rendering a reference to a master in some other county necessary or proper. That the object of the 190th Rule was to save the defendant the expense of making a disclosure of his property at his own costs, and of employing a solicitor for that purpose, while by the operation of the injunction he had no means of paying such solicitor for his services. Order of the vice-chancellor modified, without costs to either party.