Lowry & Co. v. National City Bank

(after stating the facts as above).

Conformity to the practice in the state courts prescribed by section 914, R. S. (28 USCA § 724), is necessarily subject to limitations imposed by the Constitution and laws of the United States upon the jurisdiction of the District Courts, and by statutes regulating procedure in these courts. The provisions of the Civil Practice Act of the state here in question embody a most desirable reform in judicial procedure. The procedure authorized assures the settlement in one suit of separate controversies relating to the same subject-matter, ancillary to and…