Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. Gulf Department

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “an interest contingent upon a favorable result in an associated lawsuit is not an interest sufficient to require intervention under Rule 24(a)”
• holding that plaintiff in personal injury action could not intervene in declaratory judgment action as his interest was contingent and not direct since no judgment had been obtained in the tort action
• Rule 24(b) requires more than a mere “coincidence of financial interests”

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