Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.

ERVIN, District Judge.

This was an action brought in the circuit court of the state of Alabama and removed to this court on February 4, 1924. On March 15, 1924, plaintiff filed a motion to remand, because the party removing it had'not, within 30 days after entering and filing of the record in this court, filed any plea, answer, or demurrer in said cause.

The same question was passed on in the case of Wena Lumber Co. v. Continental Lumber Co. (D. C.) 270 Fed. 795. At first I thought the conclusion there reached was wrong, and the words put into the statute by amendment in 1911, requiring the…