Pullman Co. v. Sutherlin

A citizen and resident of the State of Alabama brought an action in the city court of Atlanta against the Pullman Company, a corporation of the State of Illinois, having an agency in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, for damages from an alleged tort committed on the plaintiff by a porter of the defendant company. The defendant’s petition for the removal of the case to the United States district court for the northern district of Georgia was denied by the trial judge, whose judgment on writ of error was affirmed by the Court of Appeals. The judgment on removal is under review in this court by writ…