Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Securities Corp. of New York v. W. L. Shepherd Lumber Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by a single defendant from a decree rendered against this defendant and others. Appellees move to dismiss because of the failure to join the other two defendants against whom the decree ran, asserting that the decree was joint and can only be jointly appealed from, invoking the rule in Hardee v. Wilson, 146 U. S. 179; 13 S. Ct. 39, 36 L. Ed. 933; Davis v. Mercantile Trust Co., 152 U. S. 590, 14 S. Ct. 693, 38 L. Ed. 563; Beardsley v. Arkansas & L. R. Co., 158 U. S. 123, 15 S. Ct. 786, 39 L. Ed. 919; American Baptist Home Mission v. Barnett (C. C. A.)…