Louisville Trust Co. v. Louisville, N. A. & C. R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeals from (lie Circuit Court of the United Slates for the District of Kentucky. These are 19 appeals from the same decree.
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Appeals from (lie Circuit Court of the United Slates for the District of Kentucky. These are 19 appeals from the same decree. The bill was filed by the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Oonrpany (hereafter called the “New Albany Company”), as a corporation of Indiana, against the Ohio Valley Improvement & Construction Company (hereafter called the “Improvement Company”), a Kentucky corporation, and numerous other defendants, citizens of Kentucky, to obtain the cancellation of that which purported to be a guaranty of the New Albany Company, indorsed upon bonds held by the defendants,…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge
The first question made by the appellants is one of jurisdiction. It is contended that the complainant below is a corporation and citizen of Kentucky, and, therefore, that this is an action between citizens of the same state. It is said that the acts of the Kentucky legislature quoted above made the complainant a Kentucky corporation, and that, when it sues in Kentucky, it must be treated as a citizen thereof. To this, counsel for the complainant respond that the acts of Kentucky relied on did not create a new corporation, but were a mere license to the Indiana corporation to do business in…
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