Minter v. Fowler & Williams, Inc.

WOOD, District Judge.

The defendant, Nicholas Marotta, has moved to dismiss the plaintiff’s action against him on the ground that venue is improper in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The motion involves statutory construction of the venue provisions of the Judicial Code (28 U.S.C. A. §§ 1391 and 1392). The pertinent provisions thereof read as follows:

Ҥ 1391. Venue generally

“(a) A civil action wherein jurisdiction is founded only on diversity of citizenship may, except as otherwise provided by law, be brought only in the judicial district where all plaintiffs or all defendants reside.”

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