Melville Fuller

“ Complainant's counsel filed three exceptions to the master's report, of which the first and second alone were relied on, which were: (1) That the master allowed interest at the rate of only 6 per cent. from the time of the death of Joseph Hastings, whereas he should have allowed 8 per cent.; (2) that the master allowed a compensation of $600 for services of Hastings, whereas no compensation should have been a warded. The defendants filed 10 exceptions, but they have not appealed, and therefore these need not be considered, except so far as they were sustained by the court. ”

“ The circuit court does not seem to have delivered any opinion, and there is nothing in the decree giving a sufficient basis to ascertain, with precision, in what respect the court held that the master erred in the method of computing interest. ”

“ This was a bill filed by Jared W. Dillman, November 8, 1886, against the administrators of Joseph Hastings, deceased, in the circuit court of the United States for the northern district of Ohio, which set forth that from and including the month of March, 1875, to and including the month of May, 1881, complainant sent to Hastings from time to time various sums of money to be lent by him for complainant at interest, Hastings being instructed and agreeing to reinvest the interest in the same way. The money was first invested at 10 per cent. ”