Legal Opinion
Flanders v. Aetna Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Hampshire
Decided May 15, 1823No. Case No. 4,852PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
By the judiciary act of 17S9, § 11, the circuit court has jurisdiction of suits “between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state.” If the case stood singly upon this clause, theré would be an end of this abjection, for this suit falls precisely within the description. The case of Deveaux v. Bank of U. S., 5 Cranch [9 U. S.] 61, has decided, that the jurisdiction attaches in a suit where the corporation, which is a party to the suit, Is composed of citizens of the state, in the same manner as if ’it were against the same persons…
2Cited by7 opinions
- Wood v. Hartford Fire Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1839
- Romaine v. Union Ins. Co.United States Circuit Court · 1886
- Lovejoy v. Hartford Fire Ins.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1882
- Trinity & Sabine Railway Co. v. BrownTexas Supreme Court · 1898
- Edwards v. Connecticut Mutual Life Ins.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1884
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