Legal Opinion
Murphy v. Kodz
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 21, 1965No. 19508PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOELSCH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents a thorny question going to the jurisdiction of the District Court of a case removed to it from a state court after the removal predicate is subsequently dropped from the proceedings.
Plaintiff Ruth H. Kodz commenced a wrongful death action in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona against Howard Shupe, the Estate of Arthur Goodnow, Goodnow’s employer A. H. Davidson, and another. Plaintiff’s decedent was killed in a midair plane collision occurring while the aforementioned were engaged in forest fire suppression activities.
Shupe, alleging that he…
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