Hughes v. Green

(orally). In Ho. 3,313 — Felix T. Hughes against Thomas A. Green —a motion to dismiss the bill because of the pendency of another suit in Pitkin county upon the same cause was argued before the court. It seems that the complainant brought suit for the same matters in Pitkin county, July 12, 1895. This cause was instituted August 15, 1895; so that there was but little more than a month between the beginning of the two suits. It lias often been held that the pendency of another action in a court of me state cannot he pleaded in abatement or in bar of a suit in a federal court. Some years ago,…