Orville J. Augustin v. Rafig Ahmed Mughal

This is an appeal from a district court order dismissing appellant’s diversity complaint.

Appellant filed suit against appellee in district court on February 4, 1975, seeking damages for personal injuries sustained in an automobile collision involving three vehicles in St. Louis County, Missouri.

At the time the complaint was filed, appellant and appellee were co-defendants in a suit pending in St. Louis Circuit Court concerning the same collision. On February 28, 1975, appellee filed a motion to dismiss appellant’s complaint, contending that since both parties were defendants in the pending…