Ferriday v. Middlesex Banking Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Action by B. Pendleton Ferriday and others against the Middlesex Banking Company and others. Heard on application Of the Middlesex Banking Company and others to Stay proceedings in a' state court pending proceedings in the federal court
1Opinion
On Rehearing.
The relator invoked the doctrine of comity or public policy, requiring proceedings to ba *785stayed in the last suit where in courts of concurrent jurisdiction two suits are pending regarding the same property between practically the same parties and the same cause of action. Originally B. Pendleton Eerriday and others, residents of the state of Mississippi, sued relators in the Tenth judicial district court for the parish of Concordia, La. (that is, the Middlesex Banking Company, the Southern Land Company, and the Realty Investment Company, foreign corporations, and Mrs. Duthaut,…
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