Hoheb v. Muriel

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge:

Herbert J. Muriel, Newfound Corporation, and Gulf Caribbean Development Corporation, the defendants in an action seeking rescission of a real estate transaction, appeal from an order of the District Court of the Virgin Islands denying their Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 19 motion to dismiss for failure to join necessary parties, or to join such parties. The trial court determined that the order denying that motion “involves a controlling question of law as to which there is a substantial ground for difference of opinion and that an immediate appeal from the…