...United States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a c1tizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State. And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority...

...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»...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...ultimately amended so as to give jurisdiction in suits where 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." 88 The Senate also amended the section in the draft prohibiting suits by the assignee of a...

...exception, which proves the extent of the rule it modifies and restricts. It authorizes suits to be brought "between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and 519*] a citizen of another State," with »this important qualification, "that no inhabitant of the...

...of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity where the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State." This bill would eliminate about two-thirds of that jurisdiction, or some 14,000 cases. (See...

...17S9, Congress created a system of federal courts of first instance and gave them jurisdiction of suits "between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state." 4S The Supreme Court had held in the Hepburn case that a citizen of the District was not a...