McCAFFREY v. WILSON & CO.

No. 2583.

10 F.2d 368 (1926)

McCAFFREY et al. v. WILSON & CO. et al.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

January 12, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Asa P. French and Francis N. Balch, both of Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Frank W. Knowlton and Choate, Hall & Stewart, all of Boston, Mass., for defendant Consolidated Rendering Co., N. E. Rendering Co., and Hinckley Rendering Co.

John L. Hall, Stuart C. Rand, and Choate, Hall & Stewart, all of Boston, Mass., for defendant American Agricultural Chemical Co. and Eastern Oil & Rendering Co.

Clarence A. Warren, of Boston, Mass., for defendant Broadway Nat. Bank of Chelsea, an alleged trustee.

Choate, Hall & Stewart and Frank W. Knowlton, all of Boston, Mass., for defendant Horatio W. Heath.

Choate, Hall & Stewart, John L. Hall, and Stuart C. Rand, all of Boston, Mass., for defendants Peter B. and Robert S. Bradley.

Ralph M. Smith, of Boston, Mass., for defendant Somerville Trust Co., alleged trustee.

Gaston, Snow, Saltonstall & Hunt, of Boston, Mass., for defendant National Shawmut Bank, alleged trustee.

Weld A. Rollins, of Boston, Mass., for defendant American Trust Co., alleged trustee.

Frederick W. Eaton and Blodgett, Jones, Burnham & Bingham, all of Boston, Mass., for defendant First Nat. Bank of Boston, alleged trustee.


MORTON, District Judge.

The jurisdiction of the federal courts is, speaking generally, of two sorts — the first depending on the subject-matter, e. g., admiralty, bankruptcy, constitutional questions, etc.; the second resting on diversity of citizenship between the opposing parties. This latter is, like all jurisdiction of inferior federal courts, entirely a matter of statute. The act (Judicial Code, § 28 [Comp. St. § 1010]) is obscurely worded and...

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