Cameron v. Hodges
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. The suit was originally brought in the. Chancery Court of Shelby County, held in the city of Memphis in that State, in regard to a controversy which aróse concerning the title to certain real estate situated in the State of Arkansas. The principal defendant.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. The suit was originally brought in the. Chancery Court of Shelby County, held in the city of Memphis in that State, in regard to a controversy which aróse concerning the title to certain real estate situated in the State of Arkansas. The principal defendant. Asa Hodges, was a citizen of Arkansas, and upon that ground procured an order in the Chancery Court to remove the case into the Circuit Court of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
While this petition sets forth the citizenship of Hodges to be in the State of Arkansas, both at the commencement of the suit and at the time of the application for removal, it does not state that of any of the complainants, but merely says h that none of the complainants are or were at that time citizens of said State of - Arkansas,"’ nor have vve been able to find in the record any evidence, allegation or statement as to the citizenship of any of them. That the defendant, Hodges, was a citizen of Arkansas, in connection with the fact that none of the complainants were citizens of that…
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