Smith v. Lloyd
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Equity. Suits by Daniel E. Smith against J. B. Eloyd and others, and by Mary I. Sullivan against the same. On motion to remand to state court.
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, Circuit Judge.
Both these suits were brought in the Massachusetts superior court for Suffolk county. Both are bills to reach and apply property alleged to be in the hands of certain of the defendants in trust for the benefit of the defendant Eloyd and which can*816not be attached in a suit at law, in payment of alleged claims by the plaintiffs against Lloyd. Neither plaintiff has recovered any judgment upon his claims. Rev. Laws Mass. c. 159, § 3, els. 7 and 8, authorize or permit such suits in equity in the Massachusetts courts; but they are not within the equity jurisdiction of the…
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