Shreveport Long Leaf Lumber Co. v. Wilson

PORTERIE, District Judge.

The defendant has filed a motion to dismiss on the ground that there is not the necessary diversity of citizenship, since he is a citizen of Louisiana, and the plaintiff is a corporation chartered under the laws of the state of Louisiana. '

There is much conflict in the considerable body of evidence furnished at the-trial of the motion as to whether or not the defendant is a resident of Louisiana or of Arkansas. It is practical, therefore, before reaching the consideration of the evidence in this opinion, to determine with which side rests the burden of proof— whether…