Robbins v. Winters Creek Canal Co.

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in this suit are non-residents of Nebraska, owning a minority of the capital stock of the Winters Creek Canal Company, a Nebraska corporation; and the defendants, residents of Nebraska, are the corporation, its officers and all of the stockholders other than the plaintiffs, excepting two upon whom service of process could not be had because they reside without the state. There is diversity of citizenship between the parties and jurisdictional amount is involved. The object of the suit is to compel the corporation to exact higher charges for the carriage…