Goodwin v. New York, N. H. & H. R. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
At Law. On plea to jurisdiction.
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
This is an action of tort brought by a citizen of Massachusetts against “the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, a corporation duly established by the laws of the state of Connecticut,” to recover for injuries sustained in Massachusetts. The officer’s return to the writ states that it was served “by delivering in hand to Fayette S. Curtis, fourth vice president thereof, at his office in said Boston, the original summons of this writ.” The defendant has pleaded to the jurisdiction, and the issue raised by the plea has been tried upon agreed facts. The court…
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