Railway Companies v. Hendricks
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DYER. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Dyer County. Thos. J. Flippin, J.
1Opinion of the Court
TüRNEY, Ch. J.
The action is to recover damages of the Chesapeake, Ohio and South-western Railroad Company and the Newport News and Mississippi Yalley Railway Company for the killing of J. C. Hendricks on December 12, 1887.
The first assignment of error is upon the refusal of the Circuit Court to transfer the cause to the Hnited States Circuit Court.
The grounds of 'the petition are that petitioner, at and before the commencement of suit, was and is now a citizen of Connecticut, and that Hendricks, administrator, was and still is a citizen of Tennessee; that the controversy is wholly between the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stone v. South CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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- Shaw v. ShawTennessee Supreme Court · 1925
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