Willing v. Chicago Auditorium Assn.

Me. Justice Béandeis

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit,: which was begun in a state court of Illinois by the Chicago Auditorium Association, is said to be in the nature of a bill to remove a cloud upon title; All of the parties except a few of the defendants are citizéns of Illinois. These claimed that as to them there was a separable controversy, and they secured a removal of the whole causé to the federal court for northern Illinois. There Willing and other defendants moved to dismiss, on the ground that,the bill was not within the jurisdiction óf a court of equity and that the…