Harrison v. Shorter

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was an application to the superior coui't of Quitman county by -the. claimants, in a claim case pending in that coui't, to transfer the same to the circuit court of the United States, under the act of congress, the claimants being citizens of the state of Alabama. The court gi’anted an order *513for the removal of the case, and the plaintiff in fi. fa. excepted.

1. The application to remove the case was made under the 639th section of the revised statutes of the United States, which provides for the removal of cases from the state courts to the United States circuit…