RAILROAD COMPANY v. ORR


85 U.S. 471 (1873)

18 Wall. 471

RAILROAD COMPANY v. ORR.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R.T. Merrick, for the appellant; no opposing counsel.


Mr. Justice HUNT delivered the opinion of the court.

The principal question in the case, and the one upon which the decision is now placed, is whether there are the proper parties present in the suit?

It is a general rule in equity that all parties entitled to litigate the same questions are necessary parties. All persons having an interest, although remote, in the subject-matter of the bill must be made parties, or the bill must be so framed as to give them...

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