Travelers' Fire Ins. Co. v. Young

In courts of equity, the general rule founded on the highest consideration of public policy is that all persons materially interested in the subject-matter and object of the suit, however numerous they may be, must be made parties. Story’s Equity Pleading, § 72; Harwell v. Lehman, Durr & Co., 72 Ala. 344; Prout v. Hoge, 57 Ala. 28. Though, at law, all parties having a joint interest must join- as plaintiffs in equity, it is sufficient if all parties interested in the subject-matter are before the court, either as complainants or respondents-. Seay v. Graves, 178 Ala. 131, 59 So. 469,…