Colorado Life Co. v. Steele

STONE, Circuit Judge.

This is an action upon the disability clauses of a life insurance contract. From a judgment against it, the insurance company appeals.

This petition does not state a cause within federal jurisdiction and should, therefore, be reversed on that ground, with directions to remand the case to the state court from which it was removed. It is the duty of this court to notice lack of federal jurisdiction, of its own motion. New York Life Ins. Co. v. Johnson, 8 Cir., 255 F. 958, 959.

The jurisdiction here is based solely upon diverse citizenship and requisite amount. Diversity of…