Akers v. Akers
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. This cause was commenced in a State court- of Tennessee in March, 1882. In the following October an order for its removal into the Circuit Court of the United States, founded on a petition of defendant’s, which averred, among other things, “ that the controversy in said suit is between citizens of different States, and that the petitioner is a citizen of the State of Kentucky,” was made. .…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. This cause was commenced in a State court- of Tennessee in March, 1882. In the following October an order for its removal into the Circuit Court of the United States, founded on a petition of defendant’s, which averred, among other things, “ that the controversy in said suit is between citizens of different States, and that the petitioner is a citizen of the State of Kentucky,” was made. . The Circuit Court on the 25th October, 1882, made the following order and judgment. “ The petition for the removal of…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief Justiob Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
The order remanding this cause is affirmed on the authority of Gibson v. Bruce, 108 U. S. 561, it being admitted that both the plaintiff and the defendant were citizens of Tennessee at the time the suit was brought. Affirmed.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gibson v. BruceSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
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