Curtis v. Cleveland, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co.

WRIGHT, District Judge.

This is an action on the case by the plaintiff against the defendants for personal injuries, while employed as a-*778brakeman, in consequence of the alleged negligence of the defendants. The action was commenced in the state court. The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, being a corporation organized in a different state from the one in which the suit was begun, applied to the state court for a removal of the cause to this court on the ground of a separable cause of action from its codefendant, a local corporation. The state court ordered the removal…