Frantz Equipment Co. v. United States

LITTLETON, Judge.

In its plea to the jurisdiction herein the defendant asks the court to dismiss plaintiff’s amended petition, under Sec. 1500, Title 28, U.S.C., by reason of the fact that prior to the filing of both its petition and amended petition in this court, and continuously since that time, plaintiff’s predecessor Frantz Equipment Company, a Copartnership, had pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 91 F.Supp. 807, a counterclaim against the defendant for $12,727.21, in an action brought by the United States entitled “United States of…