Long v. Stites

HICKS, Circuit Judge.

The original bill was filed by Margaret W. Long and George M. Cushing, her trustee, against forty-seven defendants. There followed three amended bills, and, finally, on June 19, 1931, plaintiffs, with leave of the court, filed an amended and substituted bill. The jurisdiction was based upon diversity of citizenship and the averment of the requisite statutory amount. Six of the defendants, to wit,. Vogt, Minary, Duncan, Dodd, Drummond, and Bohmer, were sued as trustees, Drummond having died, Metcalfe, who succeeded him as a trustee, was made a defendant to the amended and…