Wymond

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court confirming a report made by the special master in chancery who was appointed by a certain interlocutory decree, which subsequently was appealed from and reversed by this court. The order appealed from here assesses the cost of the reference, including the compensation of the special master, one-half against the plaintiffs, and the other one-half against the appealing defendants, equally-

The suit was originally brought by the plaintiffs, one hundred in number, for the purpose of recovering alleged damages for frauds alleged to have been committed by the defendant Associated Almond Growers of Paso Robles, a corporation, in the sale of subdivisions of an almond growing enterprise.

The case was tried and decided by the District Court in favor of the plaintiffs, and the interlocutory decree entered granting an injunction and appointing a special master to take an accounting as ordered by the court, of receipts and disbursements of both the defendants County National Bank & Trust Company of Santa Barbara and Associated Almond Growers of Paso Robies, and to hear and determine claims.

From said interlocutory decree the defendants…