Phillips v. Manufacturers Trust Co.

HANEY, Circuit Judge.

Appeal is taken from an order dismissing an action, originally brought in a state court by appellant, and thereafter removed to the court below.

On February 8, 1937, appellant filed in a state court of Idaho, an action to recover $500,000 with interest from February 15, 1934, and costs from Manufacturers Trust Company, a New York corporation, hereinafter called appellee, and one Lewis, whose citizenship was not alleged. The gist of the cause of action was that Lewis as agent of appellee, its officers and directors, conspired to defraud appellant on November 19, 1931, by…