Jellenik v. Huron Copper Mining Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the "Western-District of Michigan dismissing the bill of the plaintiffs, appellants here, for want of jurisdiction over some of (he defendants who were held to" be indispensable parties to the suit.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the "Western-District of Michigan dismissing the bill of the plaintiffs, appellants here, for want of jurisdiction over some of (he defendants who were held to" be indispensable parties to the suit. The case made by the bill is as follows: The plaintiffs are stockholders of the Huron Copper Mining Company and citizens of other States than Michigan. The Company is a Michigan corporation, the mines operated by it, all its other…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
■ Process was served upon the Huron Copper Mining Company and the other defendants residing in Michigan. Watson, Demmon and Smith, being non-residents, were proceeded against by publication, but they failed to appear. The Company appeared and pleaded to the jurisdiction of the court: 1. That Watson, Demmon and Smith were indispensable parties to the suit, but not inhabitants of the Western District of Michigan, and that no subpoena or process of any kind had been served upon them in the district, nor had they voluntarily appeared and submitted themselves to the jurisdiction of the court. 2.…
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