Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Wangelin
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. . The original action was trespass, .brought in a court of the State of Illinois on May 10, 1883, by Lucinda "Wangelin, a citizen of Illinois, against the Louisville and Nashville Eailroad Company, a corporation of Kentucky, and the Southeast and St. Louis Eailway Company,. a corporation of Illinois, for breaking and entering her close, and tearing up and carrying away a railroad switch,…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. . The original action was trespass, .brought in a court of the State of Illinois on May 10, 1883, by Lucinda "Wangelin, a citizen of Illinois, against the Louisville and Nashville Eailroad Company, a corporation of Kentucky, and the Southeast and St. Louis Eailway Company,. a corporation of Illinois, for breaking and entering her close, and tearing up and carrying away a railroad switch, and thereby destroying the connection between a coal mine of the plaintiff and the St. Louis and Southeastern Eailway,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
It often has been decided that an action brought in a state court against two jointly for a tort cannot be removed by either of them into the Circuit Court of the United States, under the act of March 3, 1875, c. 137, § 2, upon the ground of a separable controversy between the plaintiff and himself, although the defendants have pleaded severally, and the plaintiff might have brought the action against either alone. 18 Stat. 471; Pirie v. Tvedt, 115 U. S. 41;. Sloane v. Anderson, 117 U. S. 275; Plymouth Co. v. Amador & Sacramento Co., 118 U. S. 264; Thorn Wire Hedge Co. v. Fuller, 122 U. S.…
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