Transit Casualty Company v. Honorable Clyde Atkins, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, (Two Cases)

We have for consideration an application for a writ in the nature of prohibition and mandamus 1 which seeks to have set aside an order of the District Court issued September 14, 1966 directing: “Plaintiffs shall within ten (10) days hereafter amend their Complaints so as to include as parties Plaintiff all members of the alleged class who have retained counsel for the Plaintiffs to represent them in these two cases.”

The facts underlying both of these proceedings are: The complaints were brought by two named parties plaintiff and seek damages against Security Trust Company, not only for…