Legal Opinion

Bliven v. New England Screw Company.

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 18, 1860PublishedCited by 32 opinions

This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United' States for the southern district of New York.- Bliven was of Westchester county, aud Mead of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, and the New England Screw Company were a corporation created by Rhode Island.- The suit was brought by Bliven & Mead in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and removed by the defendants into the Circuit Court of the United States.

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This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United' States for the southern district of New York.- Bliven was of Westchester county, aud Mead of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, and the New England Screw Company were a corporation created by Rhode Island.- The suit was brought by Bliven & Mead in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and removed by the defendants into the Circuit Court of the United States. The Screw Company brought an action* against Bliven & Mead in the Circuit Court, which will be the subject of the case next reported. The suit by…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford

This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York.

According to the transcript, the suit was originally instituted in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by the present plaintiffs, who were citizens of that State; but was afterwards regularly removed, under the twelfth section of the judiciary act, into the Circuit Court of the United States, because the corporation defendants were citizens of the State of Rhode Island.

It was an action of assumpsit, brought to recover damages for the supposed breach of six separate and distinct…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Renner v. Bank of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1824

3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Hamilton v. Liverpool, London & Globe InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  2. National Bank v. BurkhardtSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
  3. De Witt v. BerrySupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  4. Tilley v. County of CookSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
  5. Lillard v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1904

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