Cipriano v. Monarch Life Insurance

DAY, District Judge.

This action was commenced by the plaintiff in the Superior Court of the State of Rhode Island by the issuance of a writ of summons dated September 20, 1955, and returnable to that court on October 20, 1955. The ad damnum of this writ was in the sum of $5,000. Prior to the return day thereof, when the plaintiff’s writ and declaration would be filed in the office of the clerk of said *52Superior Court in accordance with the practice in said Court, the defendant filed its petition for removal of said .action to this Court on the grounds of diversity of citizenship and the…