City of Minneapolis v. Reum
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. Statement by SANDORA, Circuit Judge: On October 7, 1891, Frederick Reum, the defendant in error, brought this action against the city of Minneapolis, the plaintiff in error, for a personal injury that resulted from its negligence. He recovered judgment, to reverse’ which this writ of error was sued out.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. Statement by SANDORA, Circuit Judge: On October 7, 1891, Frederick Reum, the defendant in error, brought this action against the city of Minneapolis, the plaintiff in error, for a personal injury that resulted from its negligence. He recovered judgment, to reverse’ which this writ of error was sued out. In his complaint he alleged that he was an alien, and a subject of the king of Saxony, and this allegation was denied by the defendant. The evidence disclosed these facts: The plaintiff was born in the kingdom of…
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge,
(after stating the facts as above.) In Lanz v. Randall, 4 Dill. 425, Mr. Justice Miller, who was then pre*577siding in the circuit court for the district of Minnesota, held that a state could not make the subject of a foreign government a citizen of the United States, and that a resident of Minnesota who was born a subject of the grand duke of Mecklenburg, liad declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States many years before he brought ins suit, had resided in the state of Minnesota for 15 years, had several times voted at elections held in that state where…
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