Dunbar v. Rosenbloom
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on an account annexed for $40,000, the account containing a single item of that amount for “ Commissions for sale of merchandise and whiskey certificates,” many residents of this Commonwealth being summoned as trustees.
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Contract on an account annexed for $40,000, the account containing a single item of that amount for “ Commissions for sale of merchandise and whiskey certificates,” many residents of this Commonwealth being summoned as trustees. Writ dated September 15, 1917. The defendant, being a citizen and resident of the city of Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania, filed on January 14, 1918, a petition for the removal of the case to the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, presenting therewith a bond in accordance with the requirements of § 29 of the Judicial Code,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This action of contract was commenced by trustee writ returnable in the Superior Court on the’ first Monday of November, 1917. The plaintiff is alleged to be a resident of Boston and the defendant a resident of Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania. Numerous residents of .this Commonwealth were named as trustees. No service of the writ was made upon the defendant, and he' did not appear in court until January 14,
1918, when he appeared specially to file a petition for the removal of the cause to the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts on the ground of…
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