Johnson v. Hunt

SHELBOURNE, Chief Judge.

This action was instituted by the Plaintiff in the Jefferson Circuit Court February 6, 1953. The Plaintiff, as the Administrator of the Estate of Walter Ellsworth Russell, sued Major Frederick K. Hunt, to' recover $65,000 damages arising out of the alleged wrongful death of Walter Ellsworth Russell, who was killed on Highway 31-W, without the Military Reservation at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on January 29, 1952 in a collision between the cars of decedent and the defendant.

Defendant seasonably filed a petition and bond for removal, alleging that the plaintiff was a resident…