Stoneman v. General Motors Corp.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

VAN BEBBER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this suit for damages alleging that a collision between a cart and a forklift at the General Motors plant in Kansas City, Kansas injured plaintiff James L. Stoneman. The case is before the court on plaintiffs’ motion (Doc. 4) to remand the action to state court. For the reasons set forth below, the court grants the motion to remand.

Plaintiffs originally filed the action in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas on August 5, 1997. In the petition, plaintiffs requested damages “in an amount exceeding ten thousand dollars.”…