Ed Freeman and Wife Sharon Freeman, Cross-Appellants v. Northwest Acceptance Corporation, Cross-Appellee

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• holding that subsidiary was a necessary party because it was “more than an active participant”
• holding that subsidiary was a necessary party to conversion suit against parent corporation rather than merely \a key witness whose testimony would be of inestimable value\ because subsidiary's conduct was subject of suit (internal quotation marks omitted)
• quoting, Hendry v. Masonite Corp., 455 F.2d 955, 956 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 1023, 93 S.Ct. 464, 34 L.Ed.2d 315 (1972)
• remanding to district court after trial where plaintiff’s assertion of diverse parties was unlikely to be true
• imputing citizenship of a subsidiary to its parent and alleged \alter-ego\
• failure to raise below the issue of whether a party should have been joined does not result in waiver

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