Commonwealth v. Jellico Coal Co.

JUDGE EASTIN

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action brought by appellant on petition filed in the Whitley Circuit Court for the recovery from appellee of the sum of one thousand dollars as a fine or penalty.

*247The petition alleges, among other things, that appellee is a foreign corporation doing business in the State of Kentucky and in Whitley County, and that on April 25, 1894, without the consent of the adverse -party, it removed to the United States Circuit Court sitting at Frankfort, Kentucky, a suit then pending against it in the Whitley Circuit Court, whereby under the laws…