Cella v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. The United Railways Company of St. Louis (hereinafter styled “the Railways Company”), the owner of a system of railways in the city of St. Louis, on September 30, 1899, made a contract of lease with the defendant the St. Louis Transit Company (hereinafter styled “the Transit Company”) to extend, improve, and operate said street railways for a period of 40 years.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. The United Railways Company of St. Louis (hereinafter styled “the Railways Company”), the owner of a system of railways in the city of St. Louis, on September 30, 1899, made a contract of lease with the defendant the St. Louis Transit Company (hereinafter styled “the Transit Company”) to extend, improve, and operate said street railways for a period of 40 years. Acting under the covenants made in said lease the transit company became largely indebted, beyond its ability to promptly meet and continue to be…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilips, District Judge
The want of jurisdiction over this controversy is pressed with zeal and ability by appellants’ counsel, notwithstanding the opinion of Judge Sanborn on the circuit in overruling the motion to remand. As the defendants, the two railroad companies and the bank, were citizens of the same state as the complainants when the suit was instituted, it was not removable from the state to the federal court on the petition of James Brown, the nonresident citizen, unless the controversy between himself and<the complainants could be wholly and fully determined as between them without the necessary presence…
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