Hancock v. Holbrook

Decision Date10 January 1887
Citation119 U.S. 586,30 L.Ed. 538,7 S.Ct. 341
PartiesHANCOCK v. HOLBROOK and others. 1
CourtU.S. Supreme Court

J. D. Rouse and Wm. Grant, for appellant, Hancock.

Thos. J. Semmes and Robert Mott, for appellees, Holbrook and others.

WAITE, C. J.

The order remanding this case is affirmed. A suit cannot be removed from a state court to a circuit court of the United States under subsection 3 of section 639 of the Revised Statutes on the ground of 'prejudice or local influence,' unless all the plaintiffs or all the defendants are citizens of the state in which the suit was brought, and of a state other than that of which those petitioning for the removal are citizens. Here it appears that Hancock, the plaintiff, on whose petition the removal was had, is a citizen of New York, and Eliza Jane Holbrook and George Nicholson, two of the deffendants, and those principally interested in the litigation, citizens of Mississippi, while R. W. Holbrook and Richard Fitzgerald, the other defendants, are alone citizens of Louisiana, where the suit was brought. These Louisiana defendants are necessary parties to the suit, but, according to the record, those who are citizens of Mississippi are the real parties in interest.

1 Affirming 27 Fed. Rep. 401.

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