Clark v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.
District Court, W.D. Missouri
At Law. Action by William A. Clark against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company and another. On plea to the jurisdiction.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN VALKENBURGH, District Judge.
The defendant railroad removed the cause to this court on the ground of diversity of citizenship, asserting that the defendant Murphy is neither a proper nor necessary party to the proceeding, but, on the contrary, that he was fraudulently joined with the defendant company to prevent removal to this court. In the petition for removal the defendant railroad company sets up the facts upon which this charge of fraudulent joinder is based, and alleges that the facts stated were well known to the plaintiff, and that plaintiff well knew, and must have known, that no…
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- Crehore v. Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1889
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