Evans v. Sioux City Service Co.
District Court, N.D. Iowa
At Law. Action by Lavina B. Evans, administratrix, against the Sioux City Service Company and others. On motion of the plaintiff to remand the cause to the state court.
1Opinion of the Court
REED, District Judge.
This action was commenced in the state court by the plaintiff, as administratrix of the estate of Lewis Frank Evans, to recover damages of the defendants for their alleged joint negligence in causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate. The Sioux City Service Company, a New Jersey corporation, in due time removed the cause to this court, upon the ground of a separable controversy between it and the plaintiff, and the diverse citizenship of said parties, and that the defendant Thompson, a citizen of Iowa, of which state the plaintiff is also a citizen, was fraudulently…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Powers v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. DixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Illinois Central Railroad v. SheegogSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Southern Railway Co. v. CarsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- McGuire v. Great Northern Ry. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Iowa · 1907
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