Douglas v. Richmond & Danville Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
MotioN by the defendant, the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, to remove this action to the United States Circuit Court in and for the Western District of North Carolina, heard before Graves, J, at August Term, 1889, of Guilford Superior Court.
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MotioN by the defendant, the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, to remove this action to the United States Circuit Court in and for the Western District of North Carolina, heard before Graves, J, at August Term, 1889, of Guilford Superior Court. It appears that the plaintiffs are citizens of this State, within the district named; that the defendants, the Northwest ern North Carolina Railroad Company and the North Carolina Railroad Company are corporations of this State, within said district; that the defendant petitioner is a nonresident corporation of the State of Virginia, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtMerrision, C. J.
after stating the case: It is not pertinent or proper to consider and determine here the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s cause of action. The sole question pre*-sented for our decision is, is the action one which must, for the causes alleged in the petition, be removed,- as to the petitioner, to the Circuit Court of the United States?
The Act of Congress, approved March 3d, 1887 (24 U. S. Stats, at Large, p. 552), provides, among other things, in section 2 thereof, as follows: “And when, in any suit mentioned in this section, there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of…
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