Filbert v. Arkansas & Missouri Highway Dist.

TRIEBER, District Judge.

There were eleven separate suits instituted by the plaintiffs, bufas the issues involved are the same *115in each of the actions, they were, hy consent of all the parties, consolidated and tried by the court sitting as a jury as one action; a jury having been waived by stipulation in writing.

The actions are on certificates of indebtedness issued by the defendant to the original payees, who are citizens of states other than the state of Arkansas, and by them assigned in due course to the plaintiffs, who are also citizens of states other than the state of Arkansas, of which…