Brown v. Texarkana National Bank

ORDER

ROY, District Judge.

The defendant removed this matter to this Court from the Chancery Court of Pulaski County. Pending at the time of the removal was defendant Texarkana National Bank’s (“the Bank”) Motion to Dismiss for improper venue. The bank renewed that motion once the case was before this Court. The motion must be addressed by this Court because if venue was not proper before the Pulaski County Chancery Court, then this Court has not “acquired” jurisdiction pursuant to the removal. “In a removed case the federal court has only such jurisdiction as was possessed by the State court…