Johnson v. Blackwood Lumber Co.

This is a civil action, pending in the Superior Court of Cherokee County, to recover of defendants damages for the death of plaintiff’s' intestate, caused, as alleged in the complaint, by the joint wrong of defendants, Blackwood Lumber Company, a corporation, and Devereux Hamilton, its foreman.

Defendant, Blackwood Lumber Company, upon petition filed in apt time, prayed that the action be removed from said court to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina. The facts upon which the motion is made are set out in the petition, which is duly verified, and…