Feaster v. Southern Ry. Co.

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

In this case the plaintiff in error, plaintiff below, and so styled here, seeks to recover from the Southern Railway Company, hereinafter referred to as the railway, and from one Henry Britt, for the death of a certain E. M. Peaster. The suit was originally brought in the court of common pleas for Aiken county, S. C. It was removed to the District Court of the United States on the petition of the railway, on the ground that the plaintiff was a citizen of South Carolina and it a corporation of Virginia, and that plaintiff’s controversy with it was separable from any she had…