Beck v. Johnson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Kentucky
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, District Judge.
This civil action at law for the recovery of $20,000 damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate was brought in the state court, and, having been removed by the defendants to this court, a motion to remand it has been made by the plaintiff. The petition for removal, after showing (as, indeed, the plaintiff’s petition on its face had done) that the matter in dispute exceeds in value the sum of $2,000 exclusive of interest' and costs, asserts that “the action is one arising under the laws of the United States,” and is therefore within Removal Act March 3, 1875, c. 137,…
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