Hale v. Campbell

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken to reverse a judgment which sustained “the second ground1 of the defendant’s motion to dismiss the cause” and dismissed the action for want of jurisdiction.

It appears that plaintiff, a citizen of Iowa, sued to establish and quiet his title to sixteen described parcels of Iowa real estate and over $300,000 of described municipal bonds, all in his possession under claim of ownership. The defendants to the suit were citizens of other states who, it was alleged, asserted interests in the property as heirs of plaintiff’s deceased wife. Process was…