Sneed v. Phillips Petroleum Co.

I cannot agree with my associates that the absence of indispensable parties requires the reversal of this decree. Such an objection does not go to the court’s jurisdiction as a federal court to hear a cause. Elmendorf v. Taylor, 10 Wheat. 152, 6 L. Ed. 289;1 Hazeltine Corp. v. White (C. C. A.) 68 F.(2d) 715; Dyer v. Stauffer (C. C. A.) 19 F.(2d) 922; General Inv. Co. v. N. Y. Central R. Co., 271 U. S. 228, 46 S. Ct. 496, 70 L. Ed. 920; Rose v. Saunders (C. C. A.) 69 F.(2d) 339; Edenbornv. Wigton (C. C. A.) 74 F.(2d) 374. It goes to the equity of its proceeding in it. It operates to. prevent…