Martin v. Criscuola

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This motion raises the question, whether the effect of the 5th section of the act of June 1, 1872 (17 Stat. 197), which provides, that the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding, in other than equity and admiralty causes, in the circuit and district courts of the United States, shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding, existing at the time, in like causes, in the courts of record of the state within which such circuit or district courts are held, is to authorize the commencement of an action at law…