Arant v. Stover

ORDER

HEMPHILL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs move to remand this case to the Court of Common Pleas for Lancaster County, South Carolina, from whence it came by removal procedure. Decision pivots on plaintiffs’ claim that complete diversity 1 does not exist because plaintiff Tom Drake and defendant T. M. Stover are residents of Alabama. Admittedly, neither Tom Drake, nor anyone in whom he, at the time, had an interest or kinship, was involved in the accident 2 of January 12, 1965. At some later date Arant assigned an Idooth interest to Drake, who, as an Alabama resident, defeats diversity…