Pennsylvania Co. v. United Railways of Havana

PETERS, District Judge.

This is an action in assumpsit commenced by a writ which issued out of the Superior Court for Kennebec County dated August 14, 1937, returnable to the October term, when it was removed to this court by the usual proceedings.

The plaintiff is a Pennsylvania corporation doing business there. The defendant is an English corporation, having its principal office in London, engaged in bitsiness in Cuba.

The suit was brought to recover certain installments of rent alleged to be due from the defendant in a considerable amount, the ad damnum in the writ being three million dollars.