Opinion
No. 6894.
June 15, 1933.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida; Halsted L. Ritter, Judge.
Suit by J.H. Therrell, as liquidator of Trust Company of Florida, as successor trustee, against P.H. Arthur and others, as and constituting a committee for the protection of holders of bonds, and William H. Edmunds and others, as and constituting a committee for the protection of all holders of bonds, etc., and others. From an order (Therrell v. Arthur, 3 F. Supp. 926), denying motion of the Arthur committee to remand case to the state court, movants appeal.
Appeal dismissed.
James A. Dixon, of Miami, Fla., for appellants.
Henry K. Gibson and Bart A. Riley, both of Miami, Fla., for appellees.
Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and SIBLEY, Circuit Judges.
A bill in equity was removed to the District Court of the United States by some of the defendants therein on the ground of a separable controversy. The other defendants, denying the existence of such a controversy and the jurisdiction of the District Court, moved to remand the case to the state court. The judge in a written opinion expressed views indicating that he thought the movants for remand had no rights in the controversy, but the only judgment rendered was one denying the motion to remand. The movants appeal, contending that the judgment is final as to them. Not so. They are still parties, and their rights stand unadjudicated. The refusal to remand is not a final and therefore not an appealable order. Bender v. Pennsylvania Co., 148 U.S. 502, 13 S. Ct. 640, 37 L. Ed. 537; Patten v. Cilley (C.C.A.) 50 F. 337.
Appeal dismissed.