Key v. West Kentucky Coal Co.
District Court, W.D. Kentucky
At Law. Action by Clarence Key and his guardian, Joseph Wag-goner, against the West Kentucky Coal Company and another. On motion to remand to the state court.
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, District Judge.
This action was commenced in the Webster circuit court on June 16, 1915, on a claim for $30,000 damages for personal injuries to an infant employe. The plaintiffs and the defendant Elswick are citizens of Kentucky. The West Kentucky Coal Company (which we shall call the Coal Company) is a citizen of New Jersey-by virtue of its incorporation in that state. It filed its petition for the removal of the cause upon the two grounds, stated generally, of separable controversy and the joinder of Elswick as a defendant with the fraudulent intent to thereby prevent the removal of…
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