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The plaintiff brought this action for an accounting and thereby a determination and adjudication of the amount to which the parties to this action are, respectively, entitled, by reason of an agreement of copartnership entered into by and between said parties on the first day of June, 1909.

Besides praying for an accounting, the complaint asks that a receiver to act pendente lite be appointed by the court to take charge of the partnership property and assets, “to properly protect and care for the same, and, as soon as practicable and for the best interests of all concerned, market the aforesaid property, and the whole thereof, under the directions of the court, accounting to this court herein for the proceeds thereof. ’ ’

The court accordingly made an order appointing a receiver, naming one Par shall as such, said receiver immediately qualifying as such by taking the oath of office and entering into and filing an undertaking, with approved sureties, in the sum of six thousand dollars, the amount fixed by the court.

This appeal is brought here by the defendants from the order appointing the receiver.

The complaint discloses that the plaintiff, a resident of Chicago, was the…