 | 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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 632 pages
...The judiciary act of 1789, c. 20, ยง 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 780 pages
...Subsequent to those preliminary recitals it provides, in effect, that where the suit is commenced in the state court against an alien or by a citizen of the state against a citizen of another state, the non-resident defendant, or the alien defendant, as the case... | |
 | 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, United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 586 pages
...entitled "An Act for the removal of causes in certain cases from the State courts." This act applies to suits "commenced in a State court against an alien,...suit is brought against a citizen of another State." It contemplates suits in which the plaintiff is a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought,... | |
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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... 
