interest in the litigation
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From 296 U.S. 53 - Chandler & Price Co. v. Brandtjen & Kluge, Inc. · 1935Most cited · 139 citing opinions
It is essential that the applicant shall claim an interest in the matters there in controversy between the plaintiff and original defendant. The purpose for which permission to intervene may be given is that the applicant may be put in position to assert in that suit a right of his in respect of something there in dispute between the original parties. Intervener's counterclaim, involving nothing in which defendant is concerned, does not constitute the interest referred to in rule 37.