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FIRESTONE v. CLEVELAND TRUST CO.

No. 79-3684.

654 F.2d 1212 (1981)

Russell A. FIRESTONE, III and Myrna Odell Firestone, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CLEVELAND TRUST COMPANY and Russell A. Firestone, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan Odell, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Timothy F. Bannon, Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, Richard F. Stevens, Jonathan E. Thackeray, Baker & Hostetler, Mark O'Leary, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendants-appellees.

James R. Bright, Spieth, Bell, McCurdy & Newell, Cleveland, Ohio, for Firestone, Jr.

Before BAILEY BROWN and BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves yet another effort to confer domestic relations jurisdiction upon the federal courts. The district court dismissed1 on the ground that as a general rule federal courts will not entertain matters involving domestic relations even though diversity of citizenship exists. We affirm.

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