Shaw v. Gibbs

DUFFY, Acting District Judge.

A suit was filed in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County by Robert J. Shaw, a citizen of the State of California. Named as defendants in that suit were John E. Gibbs, alias Ed Giebisch, a citizen of the State of Connecticut, and the First Wisconsin Trust Company, a Wisconsin corporation.

Upon the petition of defendant Gibbs, the cause of action was removed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Thereafter, plaintiff Shaw moved to remand the suit to the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, alleging that since one of the defendants…