Legal Opinion
The Tilley Lamp Company, Limited v. A. W. Thacker
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 31, 1972No. 71-2433PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYER, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal we must unravel a procedural and jurisdictional maze developed in a case that never emerged from the pleadings until, after a parlous journey from counterclaim to third amended counterclaim to intervention to summary judgment in the course of two and a half years, A. W. Thacker Company, Inc. prevailed on a claim over which the district court had neither jurisdiction of the parties nor of the subject matter. We reverse.
On January 3, 1969, Tilley, a British corporation, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida seeking…
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