Jones v. Consolidated Wagon & Machine Co.
| Decision Date | 11 February 1929 |
| Docket Number | No. 676.,676. |
| Court | U.S. District Court — District of Idaho |
| Parties | JONES v. CONSOLIDATED WAGON & MACHINE CO. |
Jones, Pomeroy & Jones, of Pocatello, Idaho, and Wilson S. Wiley and Caleb Jones, both of Klamath Falls, Or., for plaintiff.
Jesse R. S. Budge, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Clency St. Clair, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, for defendant.
Defendant urges again by its demurrer to the amended complaint that this court is without jurisdiction in the first instance, where jurisdiction is founded upon diversity of citizenship, as section 51 of the federal Judicial Code (28 USCA § 112) provides that, where jurisdiction is claimed on diversity of citizenship, the suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either plaintiff or defendant.
The demurrer to the original complaint was sustained on the ground of lack of jurisdiction, and an analysis of the amended complaint shows that it is substantially the same as the original. It clearly appears that the plaintiff is a resident and citizen of the state of Oregon, and that the defendant is a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Utah. The residence of the defendant corporation is presumed, for the purposes of jurisdiction of the federal court, to be that of the state in which it was created, and that state is where it has its domicile or legal home, although it may be engaged in business in Idaho, and has complied with the laws of the latter state as to foreign corporations transacting business therein. So, where it is sought, as here, to found jurisdiction on diversity of citizenship, the last clause of paragraph (a) of section 51 of the federal Judicial Code should be construed to mean that the word "only" requires that the suit shall be brought in no other district than the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or defendant. Therefore the jurisdiction of this court cannot be predicated on diversity of citizenship, where neither party is a resident of this district. Seaboard Rice Milling Co. v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. Co., 270 U. S. 363, 46 S. Ct. 247, 70 L. Ed. 633; Lee v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co., 260 U. S. 653, 43 S. Ct. 230, 67 L. Ed. 443; Southern Pacific Co. v. Burch (9 C. C. A.) 152 F. 168; Yellow Aster Min. & Milling Co. v. Crane (9 C. C. A.) 150 F. 580. Nor does the mere fact of defendant having complied with the foreign corporation laws of Idaho prevent it from objecting to...
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