Svitojus v. Kurant

For the reasons hereinafter stated, the circuit judge’s decree dismissing plaintiffs’ bill of complaint should be affirmed. A question of first importance is; whether the decree entered in the Federal court for the western district of Michigan should be held to be res judicata of the present suit. Plaintiffs are residents and citizens of the Republic of Lithuania, and defendants are residents of this State. Obviously plaintiffs planted their former suit in the Federal court because of diversity of citizenship. The record on this-appeal clearly discloses that the parties litigant in the…