Southern Exp. Co. v. Platten

SWAYNE, District Judge.

This is an action originally brought by John J. Pial ten, Jr., defendant in error, against the Southern Express Company, a corporation under the laws of the state of Georgia, plaintiff in error, to recover damages for personal injury inflicted upon him by reason of an assault with deadly weapons committed by certain employés of the defendant company. The suit was originally brought in the circuit court, Pope county, Fla.,, but was afterwards removed by the defendant company into the circuit court of the United States for the Southern district of Florida. The facts…