Closser v. Strawn
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
_ In Equity. Suit by James W. Closser and Corbley K. Spragg, assignees for the benefit of creditors of James E. lams, against John H. Strawn, trustee. On motion by defendant to dismiss bill, and motion by plaintiffs to remand to state court.
1Opinion of the Court
ORR, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity, which was removed from the court of common pleas of Greene county, in the state of Pennsylvania. It is before the court upon a motion on the part of the defendant to dismiss the bill, and also upon a motion on the part of the plaintiffs to remand the suit to1 the court in which it was originally brought. The averments of the bill, so far as they are material to the consideration of the questions now before the court, are substantially as follows:
On the 1st of April, 1912, pursuant to the act of assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania approved…
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