Legal Opinion
Brown v. Hecht Co.
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided July 2, 1947No. 3950PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHESNUT, District Judge.
This is a removed case from the State Court and the plaintiff has filed a motion to remand. It presents the question whether the removal was proper in view of the fact that, as the plaintiff and the original defendant in the State Court are both citizens of Maryland, there is no diversity of citizenship between them, the removal having been at the instance of an impleaded third-party defendant, a citizen of another State, who obtained from the State Court an order for the transfer of the entire case, basing jurisdiction here on that sentence in 28 U.S.C.A. § 71, which…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Strawbridge v. CurtissSupreme Court of the United States · 1806
- Barney v. LathamSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Waco v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Torrence v. SheddSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. IdeSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Carl Heck Engineers, Inc. v. Lafourche Parish Police Jury, Defendant-Third Party v. Maryland Casualty Company, Third PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1980
- Central of Georgia Railway Company, Third-Party v. Riegel Textile Corporation, Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970
- Rafferty v. FrockDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1955
- Allen v. Southern Ry. Co.District Court, W.D. North Carolina · 1953
- Elliott v. LarrimoreCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1963
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