Leona Dinwiddie v. R. J. Brown, Anne Elizabeth Roark v. Gordon T. West

The sole question presented by these appeals is whether the complaint in either of the two actions involved here states a claim within the jurisdiction of a federal court, in the absence of diversity of citizenship. Although the cases are in most respects different from one another, they were both brought for alleged violations of the civil rights statutes, 1 2and were dismissed on identical grounds: for a failure to state the allegation material to the theory of recovery in each case, that the defendants “entered into a conspiracy to rob, cheat, defraud or deny to the plaintiff any right…