American Liability & Surety Co. v. Bluefield Supply Co.

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit in equity instituted by the Bluefield Supply Company, a West Virginia corporation, against the appellant, an Ohio corporation, in the circuit court of Mercer county, W. Va. On petition of the appellant the cause was removed to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Blue-field. The appellant in its answer to the bill of complaint alleged the existence of other claimants having demands similar to those of the plaintiff, and asked that they be made parties to the suit.

Various of these claimants came into the…