Geer v. Mathieson Alkali Works
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This is an appeal from an order dismissing appellants’ bill for want of due service of process. The suit is in equity, and was commenced in the Supreme Court of thé State of New York to set aside the conveyance made by the Mathieson Alkali Company to the Castner Electrolytic Alkali Company, on the ground that the conveyance was fraudulent.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This is an appeal from an order dismissing appellants’ bill for want of due service of process. The suit is in equity, and was commenced in the Supreme Court of thé State of New York to set aside the conveyance made by the Mathieson Alkali Company to the Castner Electrolytic Alkali Company, on the ground that the conveyance was fraudulent. The' directors of the former company were made defendants. On the petition of the defendant companies the case was.removed to the Circuit Court of the United States…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The facts and arguments by .which it is attempted to sustain the service on the Mathieson Company áre the same as were presented in. the case of Conley v. The Mathieson Alkali Works, decided May 4 of this term, ante, p. 406. On the authority'of that case the service in this must be held insufficient to give jurisdiction of the Mathieson Company, and the order of the Circuit Court setting aside the service of summons must be affirmed if the case was properly-removed to that court. And this depends upon the question whether the complaint exhibits a separable controversy between the plaintiffs…
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