Porter v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.

DIETRICH, District Judge.

The first ground of the motion to remand is that the petition for removal is not verified by the defendant, but by its attorney, and that the verification is not in the form prescribed by the statutes of Idaho for the verification of pleadings. There is no law requiring that a petition for removal be verified; but verification is almost universal, and it is doubtless the better practice. There is, however, no reason why the petition should not be verified on behalf of the defendant by its attorney, especially where, as in this case, the petitioner is a corporation and…