Katz v. Herschel Mfg. Co.

TRIEBER, District Judge.

This' was an action of unlawful de-tainer instituted in a justice of the peace court and by the defendant, •a foreign corporation, removed to this court. The matter in controversy exceeds in value the sum of $¾,000, and the requisite diversity of citizenship exists. But it is contended on behalf of ,the plaintiff that an action cannot be removed from a court of a justice of the peace. The removal act of Congress makes no distinction between superior and inferior courts, courts of general and courts of limited jurisdiction, or courts of record and courts not of record.…