Menard v. Goggan
Supreme Court of the United States
error to the circuit court of the united states for the EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice "Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
This record does not show that the Circuit Court had jurisdiction of the suit which depended alone on the citizenship of the parties. The petition states that Edmund Menard, the plaintiff, “resides in Randolph County, in'the state of Illinois,” and that the defendants, of whom Thomas Goggan, the defendant in error, was one, “reside in the city of Galveston,” in the state of Texas. There is nothing else from which the citizenship of either party can be inferred, and this is not enough. We have so held at the present term in Continental…
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