Debnam v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN for damages to the amount of $20,000 for personal injury resulting from alleged negligence of defendant company by reason of one of its employees, while at work carelessly dropping am iron instrument upon plaintiff’s head, in the public street- of Durham, May 24, 1899. Action was commenced June 3, 1899, in the Superior Court of DuR-iiam County, and was heard before Brown, J., at October Term, 1899, upon petition of defendant for removal to Circuit Court of…
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Civil ActioN for damages to the amount of $20,000 for personal injury resulting from alleged negligence of defendant company by reason of one of its employees, while at work carelessly dropping am iron instrument upon plaintiff’s head, in the public street- of Durham, May 24, 1899. Action was commenced June 3, 1899, in the Superior Court of DuR-iiam County, and was heard before Brown, J., at October Term, 1899, upon petition of defendant for removal to Circuit Court of United States for Eastern District of North Carolina, for that the plaintiff was a citizen and resident of North Carolina,…
1Opinion of the Court
His Honor adjudged that defendant had become a corporation of the State of North Carolina, and denied the petition for removal.
Defendant excepted, and appealed to the Supreme Court. This is an action brought to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant. In apt time, and without filing an answer, the defendant filed its petition for removal to the Circuit Court of the United States. The complaint alleges: "That the defendant is a corporation duly organized, and is doing business in North Carolina, and has become and is a domestic corporation…
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