Legal Opinion
Lee v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 22, 1923No. 422PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This was an action to recover damages in the sum of ten thousand dollars for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff while entering one of the defendant’s passenger trains in Kentucky for an intrastate trip. The plaintiff was a citizen and resident of Texas and the defendant a corporate citizen and resident of Virginia. The action was begun in a state court in Bracken County, Kentucky, and, because of the diverse citizenship of the parties, was removed, at the defendant’s instance, into the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Kentucky,…
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