Bank of Topeka v. Eaton

PUTXAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an action of contract brought by a Kansas corporation against sundry members of what is commonly known as “a voluntary joint-stock association,” organized in Massachusetts under a so-called “trust deed,” the details of which need not be set out. The defendants in the action are very numerous, and some of them have pleaded in abatement, setting out the names of other members of the same association who are alleged to he liable jointly with the defendants, and who ought, therefore, to he joined in the action. To the pleas the plaintiff filed replications, alleging,…