Ewing v. Burnham

WHEELER, District Judge.

The practice, pleading, and forms and modes of procedure in civil causes other than equity and admiralty causes in the circuit and district courts of the United States are to conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the state. Rev. St. U. S. § 914. And these courts may, in any manner not inconsistent with any lawT of the United States or rule of the supreme court, make rules and orders directing the returning of writs and processes, the filing of pleadings,…