Legal Opinion
Mid-Continent Engineering Co. v. Arrow Petroleum Corp.
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided August 18, 1942No. 732 CivilPublished
1Opinion of the Court
ATWELL, District Judge.
Plaintiff entered the state court claiming $47,202.51 to be due it on a contract theretofore executed between it and the defendant for the erection of a refinery. It is a Kansas corporation; the defendant is an Illinois corporation. The defendant seasonably removed.
The plaintiff sought service and jurisdiction over the defendant by securing a writ of attachment which it caused to be levied upon a number of pieces of personal property in Dallas.
In contending that its claim was unliquidated, it sought and secured from the district judge, an order fixing the attachment…
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