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Case No. 3,891.
    DICK et al. v. LAIRD.
    [4 Cranch, C. C. 667.]1
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1835.
    RECEIVERS FOB PARTNERSHIP — CREDITOR’S BILL.
    Upon a creditor’s bill against the surviving partner of a mercantile firm, a receiver may be appointed.
    [NOTE. For decision on the merits of this ■case, see Case No. 3,802.]
    This was a bill in equity by creditors against the surviving partner of the firm of John Laird & Son, for a settlement of the partnership accounts, &c., and for the appointment of a receiver.
    The counsel for the plaintiffs cited Blood-good v. Clark, 4 Paige, 576; Vann v. Barnett, 2 Brown, Cli. 158; Creuze v. Bishop of London, Id. 253; Philips v. Atkinson, Id. 272; Jenkins v. Jenkins, 1 Paige, 243; Osborn v. Heyer. 2 Paige, 342; Harding v. Glover, 18 Ves. 281.
    The answer admitted all the material facts •of the bill.
   THE COURT

(nem. eon.) ordered a receiver lo be appointed, and to give security in the sum of 810,000.