Doyne v. Saettele

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a preliminary injunction granted by the court below to protect its jurisdiction over the subject matter of a suit brought by Ralph L. Saettele against Max H. Doyne and others, the purpose of which is to secure a distribution of the assets of C. E. Smith & Co., an unincorporated association, to those who may be determined to be entitled thereto.

In 1927 Charles E. Smith, of St. Louis, Missouri, who had been conducting a successful business in that city as a consulting and supervising engineer under the name of C. E. Smith & Co., was leaving St. Louis…