United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Board of Com'rs of Woodson County
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District or Kansas. This writ of error was sued out to reverse a judgment of $5,000 upon a bond of tlie United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, a corporation, as a surety of the Toronto Bank of Toronto in the state of Kansas.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District or Kansas. This writ of error was sued out to reverse a judgment of $5,000 upon a bond of tlie United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, a corporation, as a surety of the Toronto Bank of Toronto in the state of Kansas. The board of county commissioners of Woodson county, Kan., the obligee in tlie bond, brought the action in the district court of Woodson county in the state of Kansas, and the defendant removed it to the United States Circuit Court for tlie District of Kansas upon the ground of tlie diversity of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
The jurisdiction of the court below is challenged-by counsel for the fidelity company upon the sole ground that after that corporation had removed this action from the state court, and the federal court had set aside the service of the summons upon the motion of the defendant, it permitted the plaintiff to file an amended petition and ordered the issue of a summons thereon which was subsequently properly served upon the defendant. The Circuit Court had jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the .action because the citizenship of the parties was diverse and the amount involved in the…
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