Legal Opinion

Aetna Insurance Company, a Corporation v. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided January 19, 1956No. 5134PublishedCited by 48 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

In this declaratory action the question on appeal is the correctness of the trial court’s judgment dismissing the action as to some of the parties plaintiff for lack of jurisdictional amount in controversy, and as to other parties plaintiff, because of the pendency of a suit in the state court involving the same subject matter between the same parties.

The undisputed facts are well stated in the exhaustive and well-reasoned opinion of the trial court, reported in 127 F.Supp. 895. We agree with the trial court’s reasoning and conclusions and should be content to rest our…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Healy v. RattaSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  2. Thomson v. GaskillSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  3. United States v. AcordCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1954
  4. Franklin Life Ins. Co. v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1946
  5. Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields v. KilkearyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1953

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3Cited by48 opinions

  1. Ramona Shump v. Lana Balka, and Wanda Jones, Intervenors-ObjectorsCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1978
  2. State of Iowa v. Union Asphalt & Roadoils, Inc.District Court, S.D. Iowa · 1968
  3. Pipeliners Local Union No. 798, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and A. Leroy Jones v. Fred H. EllerdCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1974
  4. Greenshields v. Warren Petroleum Corp.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1957
  5. Elliott v. RoachIndiana Court of Appeals · 1980

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