Hudson

(after stating the facts as above). The appellant attacks the, order appointing the receiver upon the grounds (1) that the lessors were indispensable parties, and, they being citizens of California, their joinder would, if they had been brought in, have destroyed diversity of citizenship, and consequently the jurisdiction of the court; (2) that a federal court has no jurisdiction of an action at law for declaratory relief under the California statute, or *734 to appoint a receiver therein, for the reason that it is not only not a civil suit, within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States, but it provides for a blending of equitable and legal causes of action, not permissible in a Federal court; (3) that there is pending an action involving the same parties and the same issues in the superior court of Los Angeles county, California.

As we view the allegations of the complaint, we need not enter into a discussion of the question whether or not they present a civil suit such as is cognizable in a federal court, for the facts alleged, as we regard them, involve more than a mere suit for declaratory relief under the Civil Code of the state of California, and call upon the…