Legal Opinion
Associated Dry Goods Corporation v. Towers Financial Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 12, 1990No. 1818, Docket 89-9058PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1122ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:
The central question presented by this appeal is whether a court may dismiss an action for failure to join an indispensable party, notwithstanding defendant’s ability to join the party in question by asserting a compulsory counterclaim against it. Plaintiff-appellant Associated Dry Goods Corp. (“Associated”) appeals from a judgment, entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Robert W. Sweet, Judge), dismissing its complaint for failure to join an indispensable party.
Associated initiated this action against defendant-appellee…
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