Brown v. Morgan
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Iowa
In Equity. On demurrer to bill. The bill alleges: That in March, 1901, the defendant Morgan employed the complainant, who was then and is now an attorney and counselor of •this court, to prosecute a suit in equity against the defendants school districts. to recover of them some $8,000 upon certain bonds issued by said ■districts; that complainant, pursuant to such employment, brought suit in ithis court in behalf of defendant Morgan and prosecuted the same to final judgment…
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In Equity. On demurrer to bill. The bill alleges: That in March, 1901, the defendant Morgan employed the complainant, who was then and is now an attorney and counselor of •this court, to prosecute a suit in equity against the defendants school districts. to recover of them some $8,000 upon certain bonds issued by said ■districts; that complainant, pursuant to such employment, brought suit in ithis court in behalf of defendant Morgan and prosecuted the same to final judgment or decree, whereby the defendant Morgan recovered judgment against said school districts December 31, 1902, in the sum…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, District Judge
(after stating the fac-ts as above). If this -suit is to be regarded as an entirely new or original suit, the juris•diction of this court must fail, because the amount involved, exclusive of interest and costs and the citizenship of the parties, are such ■that it may not rightly be prosecuted in this court. But is it ah original suit with reference to the line which separates the jurisdiction of •the federal courts from that of the state courts, or does it belong to that class of suits which are ancillary or auxiliary to a prior suit, either for the enforcement of the judgment or decree in…
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