Legal Opinion
Commercial Trust Co. v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 9, 1931No. 266PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff took out a summons, which it served upon the defendant, and which disclosed nothing further as to its place of incorporation than that the plaintiff’s name was the Commercial Trust Company of New Jersey. The defendant, the Fleet Corporation, appeared, and by stipulation obtained several extensions of its time to answer. When, by the filing of the complaint, it appeared that the plaintiff was a New Jersey corporation, it moved to dismiss the complaint because the action was not brought in the .proper district. The District Judge so held, and the plaintiff…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Johnson v. United States Shipping Bd. Emergency Fleet CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
- Bogart v. the Steamboat John JaySupreme Court of the United States · 1855
- United Transportation & Lighterage Co. v. New York & Baltimore Transp. LineCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1911
- Gray v. Freights of the KateDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1894
- Ex Parte Chicago, RI & Pac. Ry.Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
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3Cited by12 opinions
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- United States v. MillsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1937
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