Stanfa v. Bynum

PORTERIE, District Judge.

First, we should pass on the plea to the jurisdiction filed by three of the defendants: Dorothy Schulze Stafford, a resident of Baton Rouge (Eastern District), La., Octavia Schulze Boswell, a resident of Bristol, Va., and William Schulze, a resident of Durham, N. C., based on the point that the original petition prays for a personal judgment. Stanfa is a resident of the state of Mississippi. The suit, therefore, is not “in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff Or the defendant.” Jud. Code, § 51, 28 U.S.C.A. § 112.

The plea to the jurisdiction was well…