Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Casualty Insurance v. Stevens
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 17, 1941No. 425PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Murphy
We are asked in effect to hold invalid a default judgment entered by a state court in a garnishment proceeding after it had denied a petition for removal to a federal district court. The principal questions are whether we may review an order of the federal district court remanding the suit to the court from which it was removed, and whether the latter court was free to disregard a disclosure filed in the federal court before the default judgment was entered. From the record the following appears:
On March 8, 1939, respondent obtained a writ of garnishment from a Michigan state court requiring…
2Cases cited45 opinions
- Powers v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Madisonville Traction Company v. Saint Bernard Mining CompanySupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Meyer v. Construction CompanySupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Railroad Co. v. KoontzSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Stone v. South CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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3Cited by72 opinions
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- Bucy v. Nevada Const. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1942
- Johnson v. Butler Bros.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1947
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