LAWRENCE v. GREAT NORTHERN RY. CO.

No. 3608.

98 F.Supp. 746 (1951)

LAWRENCE, Plaintiff v. GREAT NORTHERN RY. CO. (Walter D. Giertsen Co. et al. third-party defendants).

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Fourth Div.

July 6, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bergmann Richards and Snyder, Gale, Hoke, Richards and Janes, of Minneapolis, Minn., appeared in behalf of third-party defendant Walter D. Giertsen Co.

Wright W. Brooks and Faegre and Benson, of Minneapolis, Minn., appeared in behalf of third-party defendant Waylander-Peterson Co.

Edwin C. Matthias, Anthony Kane, and J. H. Mulally, of St. Paul, Minn., appeared in behalf of Great Northern Ry. Co.


NORDBYE, Chief Judge.

The motions to dismiss are bottomed upon two grounds; first, that the Court has no jurisdiction of the third-party defendants because no diversity of citizenship or other grounds of federal jurisdiction exist, and second, that the third-party proceeding would involve different issues and rules of law than are involved in the original proceeding, which would render the proceedings more complicated to the prejudice of the rights of the third-party...

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