Seeley v. Cornell

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 whoso 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 bo complicated. However, stripped of surplusage and redundancy, the material allegations of the bill may be somewhat briefly stated and the canse of action is clear. The plaintiffs are Viola Seeley, a feme sole, and Ida May Ramsey,…