Markham v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

OPINION

BOHANON, District Judge.

This diversity action was brought by plaintiff in the State District Court against the defendant in a single action asserting three separate claims upon three identical insurance policies praying for judgment against the defendant for $5,000 upon each of the three policies. The action was timely removed to this Court by the defendant. Plaintiff filed an appropriate Motion to Remand asserting this Court’s lack of jurisdiction relying upon the proposition that the claims in question cannot be joined to attain Federal jurisdiction.

Plaintiff’s three separate claims…