Albert Pick & Co. v. Cass-Putnam Hotel Co.

TUTTLE, District Judge.

The, jurisdiction of this court is questioned on the pleadings. The plaintiff is an Illinois corporation and a general creditor of the defendant Cass-Putnam Hotel Company, a Michigan corporation, which latter corporation owns Webster Hall, a hotel in the city of Detroit, Mich. The other two defendants, Melvin L. Straus and Joseph D. Blosser, joint trustees for bondholders, are the mortgagees in two certain mortgages upon said hotel. The second of said mortgages is now being foreclosed by the trustees, in the courts .of the state of Michigan. Plaintiff alleges in its…