Golightly v. Massachusetts Bonding & Ins.

ATWELL, District Judge.

Section 28 of the Judicial Code (Comp. St. § 1010) provides:

“Where a suit is now pending, or may hereafter be brought, in any state court, in which there is a controversy between a citizen of the state in which the suit is brought and a citizen of another state, any defendant, being such citizen of.another state, may remove such suit into the district court of the United States for the proper district, at any time before the trial thereof, when it shall be made to appear to said district court that from prejudice or local influence he will not he able to obtain justice…