Goodlett v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE OÍROUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. This action was brought in the Circuit Court of "Williamson County, Tennessee, by Simon Callahan, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him while in the discharge of his duties as section foreman on a railroad between Nashville, Tennessee, and Decatur, Alabama, which at the time, was operated by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company.
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ERROR TO THE OÍROUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. This action was brought in the Circuit Court of "Williamson County, Tennessee, by Simon Callahan, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him while in the discharge of his duties as section foreman on a railroad between Nashville, Tennessee, and Decatur, Alabama, which at the time, was operated by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. The declaration alleged that the defendant was a corporation created by the legislature of Tennessee, and that the injuries complained of were caused by…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Harlan,
after stating the case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the court.,
The first question presented by the assignments of error relates to the refusal by the court below to remand the action' to the state court. If the defendant is a corporation of Kentucky, then its right to'have the.case removed from the state court cannot be denied.
Whether a corporation created by the laws of one state is also a corporation of another state within whose limits it is permitted, under legislative sanction, to exert its corporate powers, is often difficult to determine. This is…
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