Crump v. Thurber
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE. CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY. The only question involved in this appeal was the rightfulness of the removal of the cause from -a State court to a Circuit Court of the United States. The facts which raise,, the question are, stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
This suit was commenced by the filing in the Louisville Chancery Court, in the city of Louisville, Kentucky, on the 26th of November, 1880, of a petition in equity, by W. H. . Crump against James Wilson, and the Southern Dairy Companyj a Kentucky corporation. The substance of the petition was, that Crump had, under a contract with Wilson, assisted him in selling rights under a patent which he controlled; that, by the terms of the contract, Wilson was to receive $12,000 for the right for Kentucky, and $8,000 for the right for Indiana, and all received above those sums for either State was to…
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