Sherwood v. Newport News & M. Val. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Tennessee
At liaw. Action Toy John Sherwood & Oo. against the Newport News ik Mfeshbippi Talley Company and üie Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, defendants. The caco was removed to the federal court on application of the defendants, and was heard on “a plea, In abatement of the petition lor removal,” according to a stipulation of the parties.
1Opinion of the Court
TTAMMONT), J.,
(after stating the facts.) The issue of fact raised in the foregoing record by the plea in abatement is of simple solution, under the agreement, and the court has no hesitation whatever in finding that the plaintiffs, John Sherwood and Bichard Thompson, are not now, and were not at the bringing of this suit, and at the time of its removal to this court, citizens of the state of Tennessee, but alien subjects of the queen of Great Britain, etc., resident in England. But defendants contend that the allegations of the plea itself show just as conclusively that the suit was removable…
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