 | William Wait - Civil procedure - 1872 - 950 pages
...the provisions of this act, the power of removal may be exercised in cases where a suit is brought against an alien, or by a citizen of the State in...suit is brought against a citizen of another State, and the value of the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, $500 ; and in controversies between... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1872 - 576 pages
...transferred ; the right to remove, in cases like this, being confined to suits commenced in the State courts ''against an alien, or by a citizen of the State in...suit is brought, against a citizen of another State." City of Aurora e. West, 25 Ind., 148. The question whether corporations are citizens within the rule... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 788 pages
...other construction. The right of removal is confined to suits against aliens, and to suits commenced, " by a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought, against a citizen of another State." It was as essential for the defendant to show, upon the application to remove the cause, that it was... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1873 - 820 pages
...(«') And if any suit be commenced * in a state court against an alien, or by a citizen of the * 303 state in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another state, or against a citizen of the same state claiming lands under a grant from another state, and the matter... | |
 | Kentucky - Kentucky - 1873 - 986 pages
...citizen of another State. SECTION 1 2. And te it further enacted, That if a suit be commenced in J£ any State court against an alien, or by a citizen of the State Causes removed from State courts in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another State, and... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 470 pages
...and that of March 2, 1867. Section twelve of the judiciary act of 1789 provides for the removal of suits commenced in a state court against an alien,...suit is brought against a citizen of another state, in which the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of five hundred dollars, exclusive of costs. In such... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 468 pages
...and that of March 2, 1867. Section twelve of the judiciary act of 1789 provides for the removal of suits commenced in a state court against an alien,...suit is brought against a citizen of another state, in which the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of five hundred dollars, exclusive of costs. In such... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 632 pages
...The judiciary act of 1789, c. 20, § 12, which provided for removal " if a suit be commenced in any state court against an alien, or by a citizen of the...suit is brought, against a citizen of another state," has always been so construed ws to make the test of citizenship apply to each party to the suit collectively,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - District courts - 1874 - 590 pages
...which reads as follows: " If in any suit already commenced, or that may hereafter be commenced, in any state court against an alien, or by a citizen of the...suit is brought against a citizen of another state, and the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of five hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, it be made to... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 540 pages
...no substantial difference between them. The act of 1789 provided that " if a suit be commenced * * * by a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another State * * » and the defendant shall at the time of entering his appearance in such State court file a petition,... | |
| |
That if a suit be commenced in any state court against an alien, or by a citizen of the state in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another state... 
