Delta Financial Corporation v. Paul D. Comanduras & Associates

How courts have described this case

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• holding the dissolution of a partnership and the liquidation of its assets could establish that value of the plaintiff’s interest upon dissolution would satisfy the amount in controversy
• “when a plaintiffs claims are direct in nature ... the limited partnership will not be considered an indispensable party under Fed.R.Civ.P. 19, and will not be included in a court’s analysis of diversity jurisdiction.”
• “The cases are virtually unanimous in holding that in suits between parties to a contract seeking rescission of that contract, all parties to the contract . . . are necessary parties.”
• “We do not require dismissal, however, but remand the case so that the district court may develop the record and determine in the first instance whether Cranch indeed must be joined.”
• parties to a contract are necessary parties to a suit on that contract
• “The cases are virtually unanimous in holding that in suits between parties to a contract seeking rescission of that contract, all parties to the contract, and others having a substantial interest in it, are necessary parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).