 | Leonard Augustus Jones - Mortgages - 1879 - 844 pages
...plaintiff cannot be obtained, he may be made a defendant, the reason thereof being stated in the complaint. When the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons, or when the parties are very numerous, and it may be impracticable to bring them all before 1 Pomeroy's Remedies, § 116. tween... | |
 | Asa Iglehart - Civil procedure - 1879 - 1048 pages
...and accordingly, where the question is one of common or general interest of many persons, or where parties are numerous and it is impracticable to bring them all before the court, one or more may sue for the whole. 2 This last provision, however, has little significance, as such a case, in practice,... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1879 - 664 pages
...interest must be joined as plaintiffs, but when the parties are very numerous, and it may be impracticable to bring them all before the court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of the others. It is under this section, doubtless, that the plaintiff has ventured to bring this action... | |
 | California, Nathan Newmark - Civil procedure - 1880 - 786 pages
...should have been joined as plaintiff cannot be obtained, he may be made a defendant, the reason thereof being stated in the complaint ; and when the question...or more may sue or defend for the benefit of all. Generally— see 16 Cal. 145; 27 Cal. 50; 44 Cal. 332. All parties interested— joining, 26 Cal. 330;... | |
 | California, Nathan Newmark - Civil procedure - 1880 - 768 pages
...should have becn joined as plaintiff cannot be obtained, he may be made a defendant, the reason thereof being stated in the complaint ; and when the question...or more may sue or defend for the benefit of all. Generally— sec 10 Cal. 145; 27 Cal. 50; 44 Cal. 332. All parties interested— joining, 26 Cal. 330;... | |
 | South Carolina, Robert A. Lynch - Law - 1880 - 256 pages
...should have been joined as plaintiff cannot be obtained, he may be made a defendant, the reason thereof being stated in the complaint; and when the question...interest of many persons, or when the parties are very numerous, and it may be impracticable to bring them all before the Court, one or more may sue... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1126 pages
...supposed to be authorized by section 5008 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, which reads as follows: "When the question is one of a common or general interest of many persons, or when the parties are very numerous, and it is impracticable to bring them all before the court, one or more may sue or defend... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2038 pages
...common or general interest to many persons, constituting a class so numerous as to make it impracticable to bring them all before the court, one or more may sue or defend for the whole. The bill in this case is filed by the complainants representing a class under said rule. I do... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2026 pages
...common or general interest to many persons constituting a. class so numerous as to make it impracticable to bring them all before the court, one or more may sue or defend for the whole." the citizens of the United States. Some of these are no doubt taxpayers in this district, and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1124 pages
...common or general interest to many persons, constituting a class so numerous as to make it impracticable to bring them all before the court, one or more may sue or defend for the whole. Story's Equity Pleadings (10th Ed.) § 97; Federal Equity Rule 38; 1 Foster, Federal Practice... | |
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... when the question is one of a common or general interest, of many persons, or when the parties are numerous, and it is impracticable to bring them all before the 'court, one or more may sue or defend for the benefit of all. 
