Ritchie v. American Surety Co. of New York

This is a compensation suit involving chiefly the question of whether the cause should have been removed from one of the State District Courts of McLennan County to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas.

This is the second trial and second appeal of the case.

The petitioner, Henry R. Ritchie, was injured in November, 1942. He filed suit against the respondent insurance carrier, the American Surety Company of New York, on May 26, 1943. The petition then filed is the only one ever filed by petitioner. He sought compensation for 149 weeks at $20.00 per week,…