Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. Neville

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is an action of trespass on the ease, instituted in the circuit court of Marion county, W. Va., by Neville, administrator, plaintiff, against appellant, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, defendant, for the alleged *581•wrongful death, of plaintiff’s decedent, Blair Idleman Neville, and removed by defendant to the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. Defendant pleaded the general issue to plaintiff’s amended declaration, charging defendant, through one of its agents, with negligence in causing the death of decedent in an…