Johnson v. Middleton

KERNER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, plaintiffs in a representative action for a declaratory judgment to determine their rights and interests in a certain parcel of real estate, appeal from the dismissal of their action on defendants’ motion asserting failure to state a claim on which relief could 'be granted, predicated on res judicata and absence of diversity of citizenship.

The complaint was filed in the name of sixteen individuals in their own behalf and “on behalf of all those citizens of the States of Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Ohio, similarly…