Frank L. Young Co. v. McNeal-Edwards Co.

This case presents the question whether under the Conformity Act, U. S. Code, Title 28, § 724, and the Massachusetts statute, Gen. Laws, c. 227, §§ 2, 3, the District Court acquired jurisdiction over the respondent. The Conformity Act provides that “the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes, ... in the district courts, shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the State within which such district courts are held.” By the Massachusetts Laws, § 2,…