MR. JUSTICE DAY, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The Circuit Court sustained the plea of the defendants upon two grounds: 1, that the suit could not be maintained for want of the required diversity of citizenship; and, 2, that it could not be maintained as an ancillary or dependent proceeding for want of proper averments to bring the case within that branch of equity jurisdiction.
As the offer to amend and file a supplemental...
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