Grand Trunk Western Ry. Co. v. Reddick
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Leiferman was killed in an accident in Illinois on the railroad of plaintiff in error, defendant below. Suit by Reddick, as administrator, was begun in the court below and prosecuted to judgment. The only rulings of the court that are challenged in the assignments of error concern the admissibility of evidence.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Leiferman was killed in an accident in Illinois on the railroad of plaintiff in error, defendant below. Suit by Reddick, as administrator, was begun in the court below and prosecuted to judgment. The only rulings of the court that are challenged in the assignments of error concern the admissibility of evidence. Reversal is also sought on the further grounds that the verdict of $10,000 is larger than the evidence warranted the jury in returning, and that the record fails to show…
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Circuit Judge.
The declaration is wanting in proper averments respecting the citizenship of the parties, and defendant contends that the record nowhere supplies the omission. Preliminarily it is necessary to consider plaintiff’s insistence that we lack the power to determine the question of the Circuit Court’s jurisdiction.
The subject-matter of this suit was not governed nor affected by federal law, and so, if jurisdiction existed, it rested wholly on diversity of citizenship. In cases of this character, if the defeated defendant is content to rest his writ of error upon the question…
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