Lewis Pub. Co. v. Wyman
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
On Demurrer to the Jurisdiction and Motion to Remand.
1Opinion of the Court
TRIEBER, District Judge.
This action was originally commenced in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, state of Missouri, and on petition of the defendants removed to this court. Defendants demurred to the jurisdiction of the state court, claiming that that court was wholly without jurisdiction to entertain the bill, the national courts having exclusive original jurisdiction of all controversies involving the actions of the executive department in postal matters.
The bill filed in the state court, in so far as it affects the jurisdictional question, may be briefly stated as follows: The…
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