Grand Trunk Ry. Co. v. Tennant
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maine. This was an action by Mary E. Tennant, as administratrix of John S. Tennant, deceased, against the Grand Trunk Railway Company, to recover damages for a personal injury. In the circuit court plaintiff recovered judgment. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
After tbe jury had been instructed, and while they were out considering their verdict, the plaintiff below, by leave of the court, amended the writ by describing herself as a citizen of the state of Maine, and the defendant below as a citizen of the dominion of Canada. That the court had power to allow this amendment, that it speaks as of the date of the writ, and that it was seasonable, involve too familiar rules to need comment by us. Since Insurance Co. v. French, 18 How. 404, it is settled law that, for jurisdictional purposes, it is not sufficient to allege with…
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