State Ex Rel. Porter v. Falkenhainer

Certiorari. The relator seeks to quash the record of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis sustaining the petition of .the defendant Railroad Company for removal of the cause to the Federal court in the case of William S. Porter v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company et al. The facts are as follows:

On the 27th of August, 1925, William S. Porter, a citizen and resident of Missouri, brought suit in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, a citizen of Illinois, for $65,000 damages, and later, on the same day, by leave…