Greeley v. Lowe
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THp CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED . STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. This was a bill in equity for tbe partition of real estate originally filed by George P. Greeley and wife, who were alleged to be citizens of New Hampshire, against 130 defendants, most of whom were citizens of Florida.
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APPEAL FROM THp CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED . STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. This was a bill in equity for tbe partition of real estate originally filed by George P. Greeley and wife, who were alleged to be citizens of New Hampshire, against 130 defendants, most of whom were citizens of Florida. Of the remaining defendants some were citizens of Georgia, others of Illinois, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Mississippi, and one Eliza B. Anderson, of the city of Washington and District of Columbia. The bill averred the plaintiff, George P.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This bill appears to have been dismissed by the court below upon the ground that inhabitants of other districts than the Northern District of Florida were made defendants. The question really is whether, under the act of August 13, 1888, c. 866, 25 Stat. 433, requiring, in actions between citizens of different States, suits to be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant, it is admissible to bring a suit for partition in a district in which only a part of such defendants reside. As suits are usually begun in the district in which the defendants, or…
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