Dodge Mfg. Co. v. Patten

(after stating the facts as above).

We are first confronted with the contention on the part of Dodgo Manufacturing Corporation that venue was not laid for the jurisdiction of the court over that corporation, because neither it nor appellee is or was a resident of the judicial district of the trial court, as required by the Judicial Code, § 51 (U. S. C., tit. 28, § 112 [28 USCA § 112]), which, in so far as it relates to the instant ease, is as follows: “* * * Where the jurisdiction is„founded only on the fact that tlie action is between citizens of different Slates, suit shall be brought only…