Chicago & A. Bridge Co. v. Anglo-American Packing & Provision Co.
United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Missouri
This is a bill in equity. Its substantial averments are as follows: The complainant is a corporation under the laws of Kansas and Missouri, and the Anglo-American Packing & Provision Company is a business corporation of the state oí Illinois, and the other respondents, Robert D., John, lieorge, Anderson, William, and Alexander Fowler, are also citizens of, and residents of, the state of Illinois.
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This is a bill in equity. Its substantial averments are as follows: The complainant is a corporation under the laws of Kansas and Missouri, and the Anglo-American Packing & Provision Company is a business corporation of the state oí Illinois, and the other respondents, Robert D., John, lieorge, Anderson, William, and Alexander Fowler, are also citizens of, and residents of, the state of Illinois. From January, 1878, to 1884 or 1885, the said Fowlers were in business as partners, under the firm name of “Fowler Bros.,” engaged in butchering hogs and packing pork at the town of Winthrop, in…
1Opinion of the Court
Philips, J.,
(after stating the facts as above.') It is to be kept in mind, in the consideration of this case, that the suit was instituted in the state court, and that jurisdiction in this court attaches by reason of the act of removal. It is also to be kept in mind that the plaintiff had first reduced this claim against the defendant corporation, Anglo-American Packing & Provision Company, to judgment in the United States circuit court of Kansas. That judgment was in personam, and, it being a court of record, every intendment is to be indulged in favor of the validity and conclusiveness of…
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