350 F.2d 407 - Knoll v. Knoll — 350 F.2d 407

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Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1995

7 federal appellate · 6 district ·

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¶1Anna Knoll and Rose Keller, pro se.

¶2Tom C. Triplett, Wichita, Kan. (George B. Collins, Oliver H. Hughes, Robert Martin, K. W. Pringle, Jr., W. F. Schell, Robert M. Collins, W. L. Oliver, Jr., W. V. Crank, Wichita, Kan., Thomas M. Burns and Peter J. Wall, Denver, Colo., on the brief), for appellees.

¶3Richard B. Altman, Dallas, Tex. (Charles B. Wallace, Ross Madole, Donald G. Canuteson, Dallas, Tex., Mark H. Adams, Charles E. Jones, Wm. I. Robinson, J. Ashford Manka, Clifford L. Malone, Mark H. Adams, II, John S. Seeber, Floyd E. Jensen, Robert Hall, Philip L. Bowman and Joe Rolston, Wichita, Kan., on the brief), for Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc.

¶4Before PHILLIPS, PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit Judges.

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6 Appellants file'd this action in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, alleging, in substance, that they lost their rights of inheritance in their parents’ farm in Kansas as a result of the fraud of the defendants. Upon timely motion, the trial court dismissed the action for lack of the requisite diversity of citizenship. The jurisdictional allegation of the complaint states that one of the plaintiffs is a citizen of the District of Columbia, and the other a citizen of the State of Illinois. It also recites that while some of the defendants are citizens of Kansas, other defendants are citizens of the State of Illinois.1 It is obvious there is no diversity of citizenship between the plaintiff and the defendants who are citizens of Illinois. It has long been held that diversity means “total diversity.” That is, all the parties on one side must have *408citizenship diverse to those on the other side. Strawbridge v. Curtiss, 3 Cranch 267, 7 U.S. 267, 2 L.Ed. 435; Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co., 308 U.S. 66, 60 S.Ct. 44, 84 L.Ed. 85, rehearing denied 309 U.S. 693, 60 S.Ct. 464, 84 L.Ed. 1034; Wagner v. Flora, 10 Cir., 290 F.2d 508; 28 U.S.C. § 1332; 1 Moore, Federal Practice, ¶ 0.60 [8.-4, pp. 644-645; Wright, Federal Courts, § 24, pp. 71-72.

¶7We are also in agreement with the trial court’s finding that all the parties are indispensable to the lawsuit, and that none could be dropped or realigned.

¶8Affirmed.