McKee v. Great Lakes Pipe Line Co.

FARIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiff as appellant to determine the questions whether the sum or amount in controversy and the mode of removal were sufficient to confer jurisdiction on, and remove the case from a state circuit court, wherein it was begun, to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. Reference will be made to the parties as they stood below; namely, as plaintiff and defendant.

On October 10, 1930, defendant (a corporation under the laws of the state of Delaware, engaged in transporting oils by means of a pipe line from the state…