Gaumont Co. v. Hatch
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
In Equity. Suit by the Gaumont Company, John A. Schwalm, and Carl S. Rothleder against Frank Hatch. On motion to dismiss bill.
1Opinion of the Court
YOUNG, District Judge.
[1] The grounds of dismissal in this case are fivefold. The first ground is that there is a misjoinder of the parties plaintiff in that the Gaumont Company is joined with Schwalm and Rothleder, the lessees. The thirty-seventh rule in equity (198 Fed. xxviii, 115 C. C. A. xxviii) provides:
“AH persons haying an interest in the subject of the action and obtaining the relief demanded may join as plaintiffs, and any person may bo made a defendant who has or claims an interest adverse to the plaintiff.”
It appears from the allegations of the hill as amended that the Gau-mont…
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