Hennock v. Silver

LEIBELL, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a citizen of New York, brought this suit against four defendants, one of whom, Julius Silver, is also a citizen of New York and the other three are citizens of Massachusetts. The suit was originally brought in the New York Supreme Court, New York County, but on the petition of the defendant, Edwin H. Land, who alleged that there was set forth in the complaint a separate controversy, involving more than $3,000, between plaintiff, a citizen of New York, on the one hand (or plaintiff and defendant Silver on the one hand) and the three Massachusetts defendants…