Continental Insurance v. Kasey
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was argued at the term of this court held at Wytheville in 1875, and was decided at this term of the court in Eiehmond. It was an action at law in the Circuit court of the county of Eoanoke, brought by Thomas A. Kasey against the Continental Insurance Company, a corporation chartered by the state of New York, upon a policy of insurance issued by the defendant in favor of the plaintiff.
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This case was argued at the term of this court held at Wytheville in 1875, and was decided at this term of the court in Eiehmond. It was an action at law in the Circuit court of the county of Eoanoke, brought by Thomas A. Kasey against the Continental Insurance Company, a corporation chartered by the state of New York, upon a policy of insurance issued by the defendant in favor of the plaintiff. The case was once before in this court, upon an appeal by the company, and the judgment of the court below was reversed, and the cause sent back to the Circuit court for a new trial. See 25 Grattan,…
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
The record in this case presents for our consideration a single question; and that is whether, under the acts of congress relating to the removal of causes from state courts to the circuit courts of the United States, the appellant had the right to remove its case from the circuit court of Roanoke to the circuit court of the United States, in the judicial district in which the county of Roanoke was situate.
The appellant, the Continental Insurance Company of the city of New York, having its home office in said city of Yew York, but doing business in the state of Virginia, under the conditions…
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