Dallas Oil & Refining Co. v. Washington Cotton Oil Co.

ATWELD, District Judge.

This suit was instituted in the state court in 1921. Among the defendants was the Washington Cotton Oil Company. After some of the other defendants had been served by citation, Austin Boyd filed proper removal memoranda, alleging in the same that he was the Washington Cotton Oil Company, that he was doing business under that trade-name, and that his residence was in Tennessee. It appears as well from the petition as from subsequent proceedings that the controversy was separable, and the other defendants have been dismissed from the case at the request.of the plaintiff.

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