Grosso v. Butte Electric Ry. Co.
District Court, D. Montana
At Law. Action by Margherit Grosso against the Butte Electric Railway Company and others. On motion to remand the cause to the state court.
1Opinion of the Court
BOURQUIN, District Judge.
On motion to remand. Defendants are a foreign street railway corporation and its servants, jointly against whom plaintiff brings this a passenger’s action for personal injuries due to the servants’ negligence. The servants are designated John Doe and Richard Roe, true names unknown, respectively conductor and motorman of the car wherein plaintiff was passenger. The corporation removed the case hither for diverse citizenship. Its contention is that the servants, being designated by fictitious names and not served with process prior to removal, are merely nominal or…
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