New York & Pennsylvania Co. v. Davis

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

In the court below certain shippers of wood pulp from Canada to the United States filed a bill in equity against the Director General of Railroads and! the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to account for and repay to them alleged overcharges of freight on their shipments. On motion of the defendants the court dismissed the bill, whereupon this appeal was taken. Several questions — the misjoinder of plaintiffs having several rights of action; the nonjoinder of defendants, in whose absence no proper decree could be made; the lack of jurisdiction of the court ■ — -are here…