Lawrence v. Great Northern Ry. Co.

NORDBYE, Chief Judge.

The motions to dismiss are bottomed upon two grounds; first, that the Court has no jurisdiction of the third-party defendants because no diversity of citizenship or other grounds of federal jurisdiction exist, and second, that the third-party proceeding would involve different issues and rules of law than are involved in the original proceeding, which would render the proceedings more complicated to the prejudice of the rights of the third-party defendants.

The plaintiff, James Lawrence, Sr., a switch foreman in the employ of the defendant, Great Northern Railway Company,…