Griffith v. Enochs

PORTERIE, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a resident of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, brought this suit in the Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court for St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, against the defendant, a citizen and resident of the state of Arizona, describing in his petition to the state court what purports to be an action to declare the nullity of a certain ex parte judgment of that court. The petition declared “that the said undivided one-half interest” in certain described land “is of a value in excess of two thousand dollars.”

The defendant, alleging diversity of citizenship and…