Legal Opinion
Boatner v. American Exp. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Kentucky
Decided May 22, 1903PublishedCited by 4 opinions
On Motion to Remand to State Court.
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, District Judge.
The plaintiff, averring himself to be a _ citizen of Kentucky, brought this action in the state court against the American Express Company, A. B. Schlitzbaum, C. J. Abbott,, and E. D. Graff, the three last of whom he especially avers to be citizens of Kentucky, to recover $28,000, alleged to have been delivered to the express company at Owensboro, Ky., for carriage to Fordsville, Ky., and which he says was lost by the gross and willful negligence of the company and its agents, the individual defendants, each of whom was an agent, in some capacity, of the company. The…
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