Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern Railway Co. v. Skottowe
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SÜPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON. This was an action brought in the circuit court of the State of Oregon for Wasco county by Jane Skottowe, against the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway Company, for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company.
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ERROR TO THE SÜPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON. This was an action brought in the circuit court of the State of Oregon for Wasco county by Jane Skottowe, against the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway Company, for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company. The complaint was filed on October 31, 1890, and on November 10, 1890, the defendant filed a petition for the removal of the cause from the state court into the Circuit Court of the United States. This petition was denied; to which ruling the defendant excepted. The case was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shieas
In the complaint the defendant was described as “a corporation duly organized, existing and doing business in the State of Oregon.” The accident which caused plaintiff’s injuries was alleged to have taken place at The Dalles on the Columbia Fiver, and within the State of Oregon.
In the removal petition the defendant was alleged to be a consolidated company, composed of several railway corporations severally organized and created under the laws of the Territories of Utah and Wyoming and of the State of Nevada, and under an act of Congress, approved August 2,1882, c. 372, 22 Stat. 185, entitled…
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