Tolley v. W. M. Ritter Lumber Co.

The plaintiff E. Gr. Tolley is a citizen and resident of North Carolina. The defendant, the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of West Virginia, and is a resident of said state. The defendant Charles Wilson is a citizen and resident of North Carolina. The plaintiff demands in his complaint the sum of $30,000 for damages alleged to have been caused by the joint negligence of the defendants.

The corporate defendant bottoms his motion for removal, first, upon the theory that there has been a fraudulent joinder of parties defendants for…