 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 728 pages
...case being thus: The Judiciary Act of 1789,f thus enacts: "If a suit be commenced in any State court by a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another * See 1 Phillips on Evidence, 4th Am. ed., p. 807, and note, aUo pp. 525, 526; Plaxton v. Dare, 10... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 820 pages
...Intermediate act of congress, as before explalned. Where the suit Is commenced In a State court agaiust an alien, or by a citizen of the State In which the suit Is brought against the citizen of another State, the non-resident defendant or the alien defendant, as the case may be,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 750 pages
...company filed its petition for removal is in these words: " If a suit be commenced in any State court ... by a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another State, . . . and th« defendant shall at the time of enterArgument in favor of the statute. ing his appearance... | |
 | Charles Ewing Green, New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1875 - 628 pages
...commencement alone. " 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 state in which the suit is brought," &c. It will be seen that the act, by its very terms, applies to suits commenced against... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 856 pages
...the twelfth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, which declares " that 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 " [and certain conditions and security specified in the act be performed and tendered], "it shall be... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 860 pages
...defendant, (under limitations therein mentioned,) where the suit is commenced in the State court " by a citizen of the state in which the suit is brought, against a citizen of another state." That is, if the suit is by a resident plaintiff, the non-resident defendant may have it removed ; but... | |
 | Insurance law - 1876 - 972 pages
...judiciary act of 1789. 1 Statutes at Large, 79. This act, among other reasons for removal, provided that a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another State may claim a removal of the case to the courts of the United States. The defendant, under this act, was... | |
 | Jabez S. Holmes - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 596 pages
...Stats. 79), authorized a removal to the Circuit Court of the United States, by a defendant, of any suit commenced in a State court against an alien, or by...suit is brought against a citizen of another State, where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of five hundred dollars. Under this section, it was held,... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...for the determination of this case, reads as follows: " If a suit be commenced in any State court * * 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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 648 pages
...Companies, (18 Wallace, 553.) The phrase of the Judiciary Act, " a suit commenced by a citizen of a State in which the suit is brought, against a citizen of another State," and that of the Act of 1867, "a suit in which there is a controversy between a citizen of the State... | |
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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... 
