Simmons v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'n

NEWMAN, District Judge.

This is a motion to remand a case removed from the state court. The ground of the motion is that the necessary jurisdictional amount is not involved. The plaintiff’s declaration, as it appears in the record brought from the state court, is as follows:

“The petition of Thomas J. Simmons respectfully shows: (1) The Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, hereinafter styled the ‘defendant,’ is a corporation of the state of New York, now and at the times hereinafter mentioned engaged in the business of life insurance; and it had at the time it contracted with petitioner, as…