Wisecarver v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

In the year 1906-plaintiff brought action in the district court of Jefferson County against the defendant to recover damages which it alleged it had sustained by reason of an injury to a horse which had been shipped over defendant’s line of railroad. The defendant appeared, filed answer, and a petition for removal to the Circuit Court of the United States on the ground of diversity of citizenship. This petition was denied on the 3d *282clay of December, 1906, and thereafter the cause came on for hearing at a regular term of the district court, resulting in a verdict and judgment, for plaintiff in…