Hoffman v. McClelland

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The appellants sought the leave of the District Court to file a petition or bill of intervention in a cause previously brought therein. The appellees, who were parties to said cause, objected in writing to the granting of such leave on the ground that the court had—

“no jurisdiction, because the purported intervention is not ancillary, but is original, and no federal question exists, nor does there exist the requisite diversity of citizenship, and this court therefore has not jurisdiction of the matters and things attempted to be presented by the said purported bill of…