...Pacific Railway Company. The second section of the act of August 13, 1888, already referred to, says: "And when in any suit mentioned in this section there...between citizens of different states, and which can be determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested in such controversy...

...1875 alone, there might be room for grave doubt. The last clause of that section is as fallows : " And when in any suit mentioned in this section there...which is wholly between citizens of different states, cmd which can be fully determined as belween them, then either one or more of the plaintiffs or defendants...

...for the proper district by the defendant or defendants therein, being non-residents of that state. And when in any suit mentioned in this section there...which is wholly between citizens of different states, arid which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually...

...the plaintiffs or defendants may have no real interest. The statute says that "when, in any suit, * * there shall be a controversy which is wholly between...and which can be fully determined as between them," etc. It does not say an actual controversy, which would exclude merely nominal parties, nor the principal...

...from one or more of several plaintiffs or defendants the power to remove in any suit where there is a controversy which is wholly between citizens of...and which can be fully determined as between them. The dissatisfaction evinced by the introduction of this bill has been caused in part by the provision...

...suit mentioned in the section, there is a controversy, even if it is not the main controversy therein, which is wholly between citizens of different states,...which can be fully determined as between them, then any one of the plaintiffs or defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove the suit...

...necessary party, so as to make a case within the first subdivision of section 2 of the act of 1875; nor any controversy which is wholly between citizens of different...and which can be fully determined as between them without the presence of a defendant citizen of the same state with the plaintiff actually interested...

...nature of that in hand may be removed to the federal court when there shall be a controversy in it which is wholly between citizens of different states,...and which can be fully determined as between them. In Barnev v. Latham, 103 US 205, 214, 26 L. Ed. 514, the complainant's exhibited a bill against certain...

...for the proper district by the defendant or defendants therein, being nonresidents of that state : and when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly lietween citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either...

...either party may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district; and when in any suit mentioned in this section there...determined as between them, then either one or more of the plaintiffs or defendants actually interested in such controversy jmay remove said suit to the circuit...