Fort Chartres & Ivy Landing Drainage & Levee Dist. No. 5 v. Thompson

WHAM, District Judge.

To plaintiff’s complaint defendants have interposed twenty-two separate defenses and six counterclaims, to which has been added eight additional counterclaims styled “Counterclaims for Interpleader” to each of which is appended a demand that W. W. Mitchell, Charles Moder and Henry Heller, citizens and inhabitants of the State of Illinois, who were allegedly the lawful commissioners of the plaintiff district during the period of time involved in the suit, be made parties defendant to respond to the counterclaims. The plaintiff is not made a party to these counterclaims for…