Locke v. St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.

THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing, for failure to prosecute, a complaint at law brought by Esther Locke, as administratrix of the estate of Walter D. Locke, deceased, against the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, J. M. Kurn, and John G. Lonsdale, trustees, and W. H. Rumsey and Willett Martin in the district court of Sharp county, Ark. The case was removed by the trustees, who are the nonresident defendants, to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas on- the ground of diversity of citizenship, a separable controversy,…