Oblak v. Armour & Co.

REEVES, District Judge.

This case was removed from a state court because of the averments in Count 2 of a complaint containing eight counts. It is admitted that a joint cause of action was stated against the nonresident and resident defendant on all of the other counts, but that the resident defendant was not properly joined as to Count 2.

An inspection of the petition shows this to be a fact. One A. E. Gregg was the agent for the corporate defendant in the acts or statements there complained against. The averments show that the resident defendant had nothing to do with the transaction involved…