St. Paul & Chicago Railway Co. v. McLean
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This action was brought in the Court of Common Pleas for the city and. county of New York by Samuel McLean, a citizen.of that State, against the St”Paul and Chicago Railway Company, a corporation of the State of Minnesota., After answer, the action, upon the petition of the defendant, accompanied by a proper bond, was removed for trial into the Circuit Court of the United States for the…
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This action was brought in the Court of Common Pleas for the city and. county of New York by Samuel McLean, a citizen.of that State, against the St”Paul and Chicago Railway Company, a corporation of the State of Minnesota., After answer, the action, upon the petition of the defendant, accompanied by a proper bond, was removed for trial into the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The sole ground of removal was that the case presented a controversy between citizens of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
He recited the facts as above stated and said:
In Removal Cases, 100 U. S. 457, the court had occasion to construe the act of March 3d, 1875, determining the jurisdiction • of circuit courts of the Hnited States and regulating the removal of causes from State courts. "We there said, speaking by tl\e Chief Justice:
“ While the act of Congress requires security that the transcript shall be filed on the first day, it nowhere appears that the circuit court is to.be deprived of its jurisdiction, if by accident the party is delayed until a later day of the term. If the circuit court, for good cause…
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