Metropolitan Finance Corp. v. Wood

STEPFIENS, Circuit Judge.

The Metropolitan Finance Corporation of California, a foreign corporation doing business in California, sued in United States district court under diversity of citizenship privilege to recover from defendants, citizens of California, possession of an automobile valued at more than $3000.

This appeal is from a judgment of dismissal entered upon an order sustaining a motion to dismiss which was grounded upon the thesis that the district court was without jurisdiction to hear and de*210termine a controversy involving posses-sory rights in a res, which controversy was at the…