Goff's Adm'r v. Norfolk & W. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Virginia
At Law.
1Opinion of the CourtPaul, J.
This is an action of trespass, brought by J. G. Queesenbury, administrator of Walter Goff, deceased, and commenced August 29, -1887, which is the date of the summons sued out at the institution of ■the suit. The declaration alleges that the said J. G. Queesenbury is a citizen of the state of Maryland, while it is admitted that his intestate was a citizen of the state of Virginia. The defendant files three pleas in .abatement; two of them going to the capacity of the plaintiff to sue, the third to the jurisdiction of the court. Two of the pleas allege that at the time this action was…
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