Riverdale Cotton Mills v. Alabama & G. Mfg. Co.

Citations

• 111 F. 431
• 1901 U.S. App. LEXIS 4974

Syllabus

<p>Federal Courts Staying Action in State Court—Ancillary Jurisdiction.</p> <p>A circuit court of tbe United States which has rendered a decree from which an appeal is pending has power, upon an ancillary hill filed for the purpose, to grant an injunction restraining one of the parties from prosecuting against the other an action subsequently commenced in a state court of another state involving a question or affecting rights determined by such decree until the appeal therefrom has been determined.1 *</p>