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the fourteenth of November, 1877. The plaintiffs, in their petition for removal, simply seek to remove the suit or proceeding between them and the claimant, it being conceded that no removal could .be had of the original suit against A. Bruhn, the SMIle having been fully determined in the state court. But it is claimed by plaintiffs that the suit or proceeding against H. J. Dillon, claimant, is an independent proceeding, and not been heard and determined in said state court can be and hoo.rd in this court; all of which, it seems to me, depends upon the ruling of the supreme court of the United States before referred to, and in accordance with which this case must be decided. It seems to me that this cause must be remitted to the district court of Bowie county, Texas, from whenctl it came; and it is 80 ordered.
WILSON
v. ST.
LOUIS
& S. F. By. Co. and others.!
(Oircuit Court, E. D. Mi88ouri.t:leptember 25,
1.
REMOVAL OF CASES BY A PARTY WHERE Co-DEFENDANT OR CO-PLAINTIFB' IS NOT ENTPI'LED '1'0 REMOVAL.
Where anpn-resident party has an interest in a controversy in a state court which i6 separate and disMnct from, and does not necessarilyinvol"6 the interest of, the other d,efendants in the issue or the other party on the same side, he can rem0106 the case into the federal court; but if the interests of the parties on the sitle of thJl party desiring t1:.e removal are so identified and mixed up that they must and should be decided together, and the final decree must depend upon and involve the rights of both parties, then it cannot be removed, where orre of the parties on that side is a citizen of the same state as the adverse party.
2.
SAME-PARTIES-CASE STA'fED.
A., after recovering a judgment against B., a corporation, had an execution returned l1//,uZa bona, and then took proceedings under the Missouri Jaw to BfJ.bject the stockholders.to personal liability, and in those proceedings obtained an order against C., and had an executioo issued again.st him, under which the sheriff levied upon and soJd certain shares of stock standing in C. 's name on the books of a cor.poration D. A. purchased some of the stock and rec6ived certificates of sale from the shel'iff, and finding the stock unavailable because D. would not recognize him as a stockholder, he instituted suit in the state court to compel D. to acknowledge him as the owner of the stock, to have it re!ristered in h& name on the company's books, and to permit him to receive dividends, and he made C. a party on the ground that the stock stood in his name on D.'s books, C. filed an answer claiming that he had sold said stock and delivered the certificates therefor to the purchaser prior to the time said judgment was rendered against him and had no interest in tho stock at the time of said sheriff's sale and has none now. D. and A. are citizens of Missouri, C. of New York, and, the case having been removed to this court, A. moved to remand it, held that, under the role as above stated, the case must be remanded. Semble, that remanded cases, if taken up, are advanced and heard out of their order in the snpreme G:ourt, on motion.
8.
PRACTICE IN SUPREME QOURT AS TO REMANDED CASER.
lReported by Benj. }'. Rex, Esq., of the St. Louis bar.
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FEDERAL BBPOBTER.
Motion to Remand. Ja8. S. Botsford, for plaintiff. Jas. O. Broadhead and John O'Day, for defendants. MILLER, C. J., (orally.) The case of Wilson v. The St. Louis San Francisco Railway Company.and the Seligmans, submitted to us yesterday, on a motion to remand, was brought in the state courts and removed here. The question is presented in this manner: Wilson, who had recovered a judgment against the Memphis, Carthage & Northwestern Railroad Company, had an execution returned "no property found," and then took proceedings under the law of Missouri concerning such cases to subject the stockholders to personalliability, and in those proceedings he obtained an order against the Seligmans, with an execution issued against them for some twenty odd thousand dollars. Under that execution the sheriff levied upon and sold certain stock standing in their names on the books of the St. Louis & San Framisco Railroad Company, and gave the usual certificates of sale. Mr. Wilson, finding that certificate unavailable, because the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company would not recognize his right in the premises, filed this petition in the state court in the nature of a bill in chancery to compel the railroad company to acknowledge his interest in the stock, to have it registered on their books in his name, and to permit him to receive dividends, vote, and otherwise exercise the functions of a stockholder in that company. He also made the Seligmans parties, on the ground that the stock stood in their names on the books of the company, and averring that he had acquired their interest, and in that state of the Seligmans filed their answer. In this they stated that they did not own the stock at the time the judgment was rendered against them, nor at the time of the sale to Wilson, but had parted with it, and that the certificates were then, and ever since had been, in the hands of persons to whom they sold, whose names they do not give; that it was sold in the ordinary business way, by indorsement with blank power of attorney; and that they do not know where it is; at all events, they assert very roundly that they have no interest in the stock itself, although it stood in their names on the books at the time of filing the answer of the railroad company. Application was made by Seligman, as a citizen of New York, on the ground of his citizenship in that state, to transfer the case to this court, and it was done, by order of the state court. It is now moved to remand it on the ground that it was not a removable cause, and the question that is presented is rather a question of fact than any needed new construction of the law on the subject of removal, for the courts have decided-and it has been decided frequently, so that the doctrine must be pretty well established at this time-that if a non-resident party has an interest in a controversy which is separate and disj,inct, and does not necessarily involve the interest of the other defendants in the issue, or the other party on the same side,
WILSON V. ST. LOUIS & S. F. RY. CO.
he can remove the whole case into the federal courts. On the other' hand, if the interests of the other parties are so identified and so mixed up that they must and should be decided together, and depend on the final decree, which must depend upon and involve the rights of both parties, then it cannot be removed, where one of the parties is a citizen of the same state with the plaintilI or defendant. I think such is the case here. The main relief sought which would satisfy Wilson is that he be placed on the booke of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company as the owner of that stock. To do that, that company has something to do. They resist him. The powers of this court are called into operation to compel them to do that thing. Whether. they should do it or not depends upon the fact of whether Wilson is the rightful owner of the stock, and that depends upon whether the sale of the stock was properly made, and whether he (Wilson) acquired the right to the stock which stood in the name of the Seligmans, on the books of the railroad company, as the owners of the stock ought to be bound by any decree which makes the transfer out of toeir name into Wilson's name. If they are not bound by it the act is of very little value to Wilson. If they can go on ood show they owned the stock, or that some vendee of theirs owned He has the right, the stock, why Wilson gets no good of the that the question in whose name the stock shall stand on the book of the company shall be before the court, and that the decree shall bind him at the same time that it binds the railroad company. The act to be done, the interests sought to be enforced against both these parties affects both, and both should be bound by it, and therefore it is a case not transferable to the circuit court of the United States, because the railroad company is a citizen of the same state with Wilson, the plaintiff. The case will be remanded. I wish to suggest, however, as I have done several times of late on the circuit, that In these cases of removal, when remanded, if the court commits an error it is speedily remedliable in the supreme court of the United States. Take this particular oose in which the order to remand is made. The other party can take a writ of error to-morrow, have the record filed in the supceme court of the United States on the first day of the term, go there and make his motion to have the case advanced and heard, prepare his brief, submit it to the court, and it can be decided within 10 days from the second Monday in October. The court has found this trouble in these cases: that where a case is not remanded, the coui"t goes on and exercises jurisdiction, and it comes upon a writ of error afterwards, but in cases where it is reo manded the federal courts sUBpend and do nothing at all. Our court has felt the necessity of bringing that class of cases within the rule of advancement, so that they are advanced and heard out of their order always, when the party against whom the judgment is rendered takes the necessary steps to have it reversed; so it is with less hesi.
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FEDERAL REPORTER·
tation that we order the remanding of this case, from the fact that by the first day of Novembez Mr. Seligman can have the question decided by the supreme court of the United States whether we shall change this order or not.
ROTHSOHILD
and others v.
MATTHEWS.
(Circuit Coure, E. D. Micltigan. JUly 22, 1884. 1. HEMOVAL OF CAUSE-CASE ARISING UNDJllR
LAws OF UNITED &rATES. Plaintiffs sued defoodant, a United States marshal, in the state court, for trespass in seizing and carrying away books of account belonging to them, but the declaration failed to allege that defendant acted in his official capacity. Defendoot demurred generally, and thereupon filed a petition fur removal of the case to the federal court, alleging in his petition that he was a United States marshal, and acted under an attachment issued by the United States circuit court in making the alleged seizure, "if any seizure actually occurred," and that the suit was one arising under the laws of the United States, and involved the construction of such laws. Held, that the record did not pn'Seut a case within the jurisdictj.oo. of the federal court, and that the cause was not removable.
SAME-PETITION-RECORD.
The ground of jurisdiction of the United States court must appear in the record as it actually exists, and the petition for removal can be taken as part of that record only so far as it states facts which may be regarded as legally consistent with the pleadings of the parties and within the purview of the issue, if one has been made between them.
Motion to Remand. Justice. This case is submitted on a motion by plaintiffs to remand it to the superior court of Detroit, from which it was removed on petition of the defflndant. The action was brought to recover $10,000 damages for an alleged trespass, described as the forcible and unlawful takicg and carrying away from the possession of the plaintiffs of certain books of account belonging to them. There is nothing in the declaration from which it can be inferred that the trespass complained of was committed under color of right on the part of the defendant. To this declaration a general demurrer was filed by the defendant; and thereupon the defendant filed in the state court his petition for the removal of the cause to this court. This petition sets out that the defendant is, and was at the time of the alleged grievances, the United States marshal for the Eastern district of Michigan; that the suit is one arising under the laws of the pnited States; that, as appears by the declaration, it was brought against the petitioner for unlawfully seizing certain property and books of account, and for retaining and holding the same in his possession, and converting the same to his own use; and continues as follows: Mf\TTHEWS,
taking possession of said books of account, if such seizure and possession act-
"Y"ur petitioner further represents that at the time of the seizing and