Illinois Trust & Savings Bank v. Minton

Citations

• 120 F. 187
• 1902 U.S. App. LEXIS 5311

Syllabus

<p>1 Strikes — Injunction—Federal Courts — Nonresident Trustees — Capacity to Sue.</p> <p>An Iowa telephone company executed a deed of trust in which plaintiff, a foreigh corporation, was named as trustee, but plaintiff was not authorized to bring any suit to enforce the deed, nor exercise any control over the corporation or its property, until after default had been made in the payment of interest on its bonds, etc. Before such default, the telephone company brought suit in a state court to restrain certain strikers, residents of the same state, from boycotting, picketing, and intimidating its employes, etc. Held, that plaintiff had no capacity to sue such strikers for the same relief in a federal court in an action in which the telephone company was not joined.</p>