United States Radiator Corp. v. Doody

DICKINSON, District Judge.

This motion is based upon the double ground of want of equitable jurisdiction and the lack of jurisdiction in this court to entertain the bill. The first ground is very plausibly presented. The motive and purpose of the bill is merely to obtain a mora-: torium. Whatever might be urged to show that a moratorium purpose does not confer jurisdiction in equity, the question' is no longer an open one. The well-known Pusey & Jones Case, 261 U. S. 491, 43 S. Ct. 454, 67 L. Ed. 763, supplies us with the true doctrine. Want of jurisdiction because of the absence of equitable…