Pierre Claude Piquignot, Plaintiff In Error v. the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Decision Date | 01 December 1853 |
Citation | 14 L.Ed. 863,57 U.S. 104,16 How. 104 |
Parties | PIERRE CLAUDE PIQUIGNOT, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
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Holman v. Carpenter Technology Corp., Civ. A. No. 79-2623.
...U.S. 823, 86 S.Ct. 52, 315 L.Ed.2d 68 (1965). See also Cameron v. Hodges, 127 U.S. 322, 325 (1888) and Piquignot v. Pennsylvania Railroad, 57 U.S. (16 How.) 104, 105, 14 L.Ed. 863 (1834). In other words, plaintiff must affirmatively allege the essential elements of diversity jurisdiction. M......
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Burleson v. Coastal Recreation, Inc.
...the jurisdiction, that jurisdiction does not exist, but even when it does not appear, affirmatively, that it does exist. Pequignot v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 16 How. 104, (14 L.Ed. 863.) It acts upon the principle that the judicial power of the United States must not be exerted in a case to wh......
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Sherwood v. Newport News & M. Val. Co.
...is an alien, the record must show, by proven averment, that the other party is a citizen. Mossman v. Higginson, 4 Dall. 12; Piquignot v. Railroad Co., 16 How. 104. controversy in the state court, by the state, upon a bond to keep the peace, against an alien, cannot be removed to the federal......
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Hyman v. City of Gastonia
...each of the abatement defenses listed above. Instead, we can rest solely on the Supreme Court's decisions in Piquignot v. Penn. R. Co., 57 U.S. 104, 16 How. 104, 14 L.Ed. 863 (1853), and In Piquignot, the plaintiff sued the defendant in state court and then, while the state court suit was p......
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