Morton v. Mutual Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a policy of insurance made by the defendants December 28, 1868, upon the life of Morris Morton, of Chicopee, .n the sum of $5000, payable on his death to the plaintiff, who was his wife, and in the writ described herself as of Chicopee, and alleged in her declaration that he died March 10, 1870, and that all the conditions of the policy requisite to entitle her to a recovery thereon had been complied witn.
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Contract on a policy of insurance made by the defendants December 28, 1868, upon the life of Morris Morton, of Chicopee, .n the sum of $5000, payable on his death to the plaintiff, who was his wife, and in the writ described herself as of Chicopee, and alleged in her declaration that he died March 10, 1870, and that all the conditions of the policy requisite to entitle her to a recovery thereon had been complied witn. Writ dated May 28, 1870. In the superior court, the defendants, at the time of entering their appearance, filed a petition for the removal of the cause for trial into the next…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
The defendant is a corporation created and doing business in the state of New York; and as such it must be *147regarded as a citizen of that state, -within the judiciary act of the United States. Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Railroad Co. v. Letson, 2 How. 497. Marshall v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. 16 How. 314. Covington Drawbridge Co. v. Shepherd, 20 How. 227. Cowles v. Mercer County, 7 Wallace, 121. When sued in a state court, it may, as such citizen of another state, remove the cause to the circuit court of the United States, if there is nothing in the legislation of the state to…
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- Louisville, Cincinnati, & Charleston Rail-Road v. LetsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1844
- Marshall v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
- Covington Drawbridge Company v. SHEPHERDSupreme Court of the United States · 1858
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