Brown v. Keene

This appeal is from a-decree of the court of the United States for the district of Louisiana. The first error assigned in the proceedings is, that the petition, which in the practice of Louisiana, is substituted for a declaration, does not show, with sufficient certainty, that the parties were within the jurisdiction of the court. If this objection be well founded, it is undoubtedly fatal.. The petition avers, that the plaintiff, Richard R’aynal Keene, is a citizen of the state of Maryland; and that James Brown, the defendant, is a citizen or resident of the state of Louisiana, holding his…