Trans Pacific Corporation, a District of Columbia Corporation v. South Seas Enterprises, Ltd.

In a diversity action for breach of contract, the court below dismissed plaintiff-appellant’s first amended complaint, for failure to join indispensable parties. This is an appeal from such decision. 28 U.S.C. § 1291.

A party is indispensable if his interest is such that a decree cannot be rendered that will not affect his interest, or if such party’s absence leaves the controversy in such a condition that its final determination is wholly inconsistent with equity and good conscience. Barney v. Baltimore City, 1867, 6 Wall. 280, 284, 73 U.S. 280, 284, 18 L.Ed. 825; De Korwin v. First Nat. Bank…