Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields v. Kilkeary

LEMMON; District Judge.

The plaintiff, k M-aine corporation, has filed in this Court a complaint “for relief against multiplicity of actions, for declaratory relief, for an injunction, and for other appropriate relief”.

In its opening memorandum, the plaintiff describes its complaint as being “in equity in the nature of a bill of peace”, seeking “to avoid a multiplicity of hundreds of legal actions by determining in one equity suit the liability asserted in all claims against Yuba (plaintiff) for damages resulting from floods on theYuba River in November and December, 1950”. The complaint…