Legal Opinion
Carpenter v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
District Court, M.D. Louisiana
Decided October 9, 1981No. Civ. A. 81-631-B, 81-632-BPublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POLOZOLA, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on the motions of the plaintiffs in each of these consolidated cases to remand these eases to the state court. These suits arise out of an automobile-train collision. At the time of the accident, Mr. Carpenter was driving the automobile and his wife, Cora Lea Carpenter, was a passenger. Separate suits were filed in the Twenty-First Judicial District for Livingston Parish. After the suits were filed, the defendants, Illinois Central Gulf Railroad and Trinity Universal Insurance Company, timely removed these cases to federal court.…
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