 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 892 էջ
...him. Under the act of congress, 1 jurisdiction may be exercised by the courts of the United States " between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State." " But no person shall be arrested in one district for trial in another, in any civil action."... | |
 | United States - 1923 - 1230 էջ
...cause.—To authorize removal of cause on the ground of separable controversy, such controversy must be between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought and a defendant who is n citizen of another state.—In re Vadner (DC Nev.) 259 F. 614. (B) Allegation»... | |
 | 1924 - 1284 էջ
...Federal jurisdiction, 70 and the clause was amended in the Senate by restricting it so as to read " or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State." " This confined suits in the Circuit Court to suits brought in the State of which either the... | |
 | United States - 1924 - 936 էջ
...14. Relation to Legislative Grant of Jurisdiction The words in the legislative grant of jurisdiction, "of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State," are obviously no more than equivalent terms to confine suits in the circuit courts to those... | |
 | 1881 - 954 էջ
...and by the judiciary act jurisdiction is conferred upon the circuit courts of the United States when "the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought and a citizen of another state." It is now settled that for the purposes of federal jurisdiction corporations are regarded as... | |
 | 1882 - 952 էջ
...courts jurisdiction of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, of the required amount, between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought and a citizen of another state. Chapter 20, § 11 ; 1 St. at Large, 78. At the same time, it was provided that no civil suit... | |
 | 1889 - 964 էջ
...In the judiciary act of 1889 the language in respect to jurisdiction and place of trial was: "Where an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of a state where the suit is brought and a citizen of another state." And in the case of Straw-bridge... | |
 | George Folger Canfield, Isaac Maurice Wormser - 1925 - 960 էջ
...are chosen to manage its affairs, is a suit, so far as jurisdiction is concerned, between citizens of the state where the suit is brought and a citizen of another state. The corporators as individuals are not defendants in the suit, but they are parties having an... | |
 | Louis Martin Sears - 1925 - 278 էջ
...circuit court of the United States jurisdiction of all civil suits at common law, or in equity, when an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of another state, and that they do report by the bill or otherwise."8 A second and equally abiding interest... | |
 | United States - 1926 - 590 էջ
...where the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, exceeds the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where it is brought and a citizen of another state : Provided, That no Circuit Court shall have cognizance... | |
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States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State. 
