Arrowsmith v. Nashville & D. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Tennessee
At Law. Action brought i-n the circuit court of Giles county, Tenn., by Henry Arrowsmitb, administrator of David S. Martin, against the Nashville & Decatur Railroad Company and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, for negligence causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company removed the cause to this court. Heard on motion to remand.
1Opinion of the Court
LURTON, Circuit Judge.
This case is now heard upon a plea in abatement and a motion to remand to the state cciurt, from which the case was removed on petition of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. The Nashville & Decatur Railroad Company is a corporation created by the laws of the state of Tennessee. It owned and operated a line of railway extending from Nashville, in the state of Tennessee, to Decatur, in the state of Alabama. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company is a Kentucky corporation, whose original line extended from Louisville, in the state of Kentucky, to Nashville,…
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