If the account should not now be ordered to be taken, and at the next term a verdict should be against defendant, we shall not be ready to pass a final decree, for want of the account. It should, therefore, be taken, as one of the materials for making up a decree, in case it should turn out that he is liable to account.
NOTE. — See Bruce v. Child, 11 N.C. 376, and McLin v. McNamara,21 N.C. 407, which seem contra.