Westbrook v. Director General of Railroads

SIBLEY, District Judge.

Four suits, each for $25,000, were brought in the state court, for personal injuries and homicides inflicted during federal control, against “the Director General of Railroads of the United States, appointed by the President of the United States and acting under an act of Congress, and engaged in the operation of the line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company.” They were removed on the grounds: (1) That plaintiffs are citizens and residents of Georgia, and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, to whom the defendant succeeded in operating the railroads,…