Davis v. Massachusetts Mut. Life Ins.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

By separate appeals Davis and the Greens, defendants below, complain of the rulings on pleadings which resulted as to the Greens, in dismissing them and their counterclaims, entirely from the suit as having no proper place in it, and, as to Davis, in striking, as without merit, all of his defenses and counterclaims.

The suit, in equity to foreclose a mortgage on a lot in Tampa, Fla., made parties to it, but asked no relief except foreclosure, against the Greens, the makers of the note, Davis, the present owner of the equity, and the Woodward & Crowder Company as…