Visayan Refining Co. v. Standard Transp. Co.

THACHER, District Judge.

The motion is to remand the ease to the state court, from which it was removed by defendants on the grounds that the suit arises under the Constitution and laws of the United States and the complaint discloses a separable controversy wholly between citizens of different states. The jurisdictional amount is involved.

In the first cause of action the complaint alleges that in June, 1917, defendants entered into an agreement with plaintiff to transport, during the years 1917 and 1918, all of the cocoanut oil manufactured by the plaintiff from the Philippine Islands to San…