Broadway Ins. v. Chicago G. W. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri
In Equity. Considered on the question of jurisdiction by removal.
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIP'S, District Judge.
This cause has been submitted on demurrer to the bill. But an examination of the bill raises the question of jurisdiction in the mind of the court. The complainants are all nonresident insurance companies. The defendant railroad company is also a nonresident citizen. The defendant W. D. Bennett Lumber Company (which for convenience will be designated as the “Lumber Company”) is a Missouri corporation, as also the other defendant, the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company. The controversy, in brief, grows out of the following state of facts, as disclosed by the bill of…
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