Nathaniel P. Broussard v. Columbia Gulf Transmission Company

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge.

This case involves Rule 19 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, joinder of parties, 1 as it relates to joinder of an owner of an undivided one-sixth interest in realty when the remaining owners are seeking the removal of a pipeline across the property. The joinder, if required, would nullify diversity jurisdiction. Our loyalty to the pragmatic emphasis of the new Rule 19, as elucidated with sculptured clarity in the recent Supreme Court decision of Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson, 1968, 390 U.S. 102, 88 S.Ct. 733, 19 L.Ed.2d 936, requires that we…