Industrial Lithographic Co. v. Mendelsohn

MEANEY, District Judge.

The question before the court on this motion is whether a claim introduced into an action by a third party should afford the basis for removal.

Industrial Lithographic Co. Inc., a New York corporation, originally began this action by bringing suit in the courts of the State of New Jersey against defendants, Louis H. Mendelsohn and Abram C. Mendelsohn, individually and trading as Excello Hosiery Mills, citizens of New Jersey. Defendants filed an answer to the complaint and a third party complaint against McKesson & Robbins, Inc., a Maryland corporation, who thereafter…