Morrison Waite

“ On the twenty-sixth of February, 1876, in vacation, the Washington Fire & Marine Insurance Company, and the other creditors who had been formally admitted as defendants, with some other creditors, also beneficiaries under the trust, filed an answer to the original complaint and a cross-bill. To the cross-bill all the defendants in the original bill, except Crook, were made defendants, and also the infant children of James H. Edrington, and all the creditors of Edrington & Jefferson, beneficiaries under the trust, who were not complainants. ”

“ Some of the creditors were admitted as defendants, not because they were necessary parties to the suit, but that they might be present to protect their own intere ts if necessary. To let them in, no amendment of the complaint was needed, because the original allegations against their trustee were in reality allegations against them. They were given 20 days' time to answer for themselves and to file a cross-bill. ”