Otto T. Schwab v. Erie Lackawanna Railroad Company

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• observing that Rules 14 and 18 have been read in conjunction to allow other claims arising from the same transaction where an appropriate third party claim exists
• rejecting “the view that Rule 14 permits recovery of damages in excess of, or different from, that sought by the original plaintiff in his main claim”
• ancillary jurisdiction over claim ancillary to proper third-party complaint
• Rule 18(a) allows the defendant with a valid Rule 14(a
• ancillary jurisdiction over claim ancillary to proper third-party complaint
• mislabeling of crossclaims is not fatal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).