Jackson v. Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York
Supreme Court of Georgia
United States Courts. Eemoval of causes. Practice in the Superior Court. Practice in the Supreme Court. Judgments. Before Judge Gibson. Biehmond Superior Court. October Term, 1877. On May 11th, 1877, Jackson, jr., administrator, brought complaint against the Mutual Life Insurance Company.
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United States Courts. Eemoval of causes. Practice in the Superior Court. Practice in the Supreme Court. Judgments. Before Judge Gibson. Biehmond Superior Court. October Term, 1877. On May 11th, 1877, Jackson, jr., administrator, brought complaint against the Mutual Life Insurance Company. On the second day of the succeeding October term of court defendant filed the following petition : “ The petition of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, respectfully shows that there is now pending in this honorable court a suit of a civil nature at law, brought by "William E. Jackson, jr., as…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Judge.
But two questions for the adjudication of this court are made in this record.
1st. Under the act of 1875, passed by congress for the removal of cases from the state to the federal courts, is it necessary that the petition allege specifically that the parties were citizens of different states at the commencement of the suit, as was the case under the old act of 1789 % It has been held in cases arising under that act, that the petition must show this fact distinctly on its face, and that it will not do merely to allege that the parties are citizens of different states, because…
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