SEELEY v. CORNELL

No. 7468.

74 F.2d 353 (1934)

SEELEY et al. v. CORNELL et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. R. Boone and Kearby Peery, both of Wichita Falls, Tex., for appellants.

Henry E. Jackson, Chas. Gibbs, and Scott Snodgrass, all of San Angelo, Tex., Ed. M. Whitaker, of El Paso, Tex., F. H. DeGroat, of Duluth, Minn., and Chas. A. Holden, of Tulsa, Okl., for appellees.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a bill in equity on the sole ground that indispensable parties had been omitted whose joinder and proper alignment as plaintiffs would defeat jurisdiction based on diversity of citizenship.

The bill is lengthy and diffuse, occupying 34 pages of the printed record, and therefore the case appears to be complicated. However, stripped of surplusage and redundancy, the material allegations of the...

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