Anderson v. Penncraft Tool Company

WILL, District Judge.

This is a personal injury action here on removal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. The jurisdictional requirements of diversity and dollar amount are pleaded. Defendant now appears specially and moves to quash the service of summons on it in the State Court action effected under the authority of Sections 16 and 17 of the Illinois Civil Practice Act (chapter 110, Ill.Rev.Stat. §§ 16, 17).

Since the jurisdiction of a federal court on removal is a derivative jurisdiction, Lambert Run Coal Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co., 1922, 258 U.S. 377, 382, 42 S.Ct. 349, 66 L.Ed.…