Pneff v. Boneff

REEVES, Chief Judge.

In the above case a nonresident brought a suit in a state court .against' local residents and citizens. The statute on the subject, being Section 1441 Title 28 U.S.C.A., simply provides that where the district courts would otherwise have had original jurisdiction the case might be removed where there is a diversity of citizenship and the amount in controversy is sufficient. The statute does not specify that only a nonresident defendant may remove but by former acts not now appearing in the books it had contemplated that only nonresidents could remove on the theory of a…