Camp v. Gress
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP . APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bkandeis
Section 51 .of the Judicial Code declares that (with exceptions not here material) “no civil suit shall be brought in any district court against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant; but where the jurisdiction-is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant.”
Resting jurisdiction wholly on diversity of citizenship, Gress, a citizen and resident of Florida, brought, in the District Court…
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