108
FEDERAl, REPORTER,
vol. 47.
The motion to dismiss is denied, and plaintiff is granted leave to amend, by stating the citizenship of the plaintiff and his assignor, according to the facts as they existed at the commencement of the suit.
BARTELS
et 01.
tI. REDFIELD
et ale
(Circuit Court, S. D. New York. October 9, 1891.) COI'l'I!-WIIO EN:TITLBD To-JUDGMENT DmECTED BY SUPREME COURT.
In an action at law in which the supreme court, upon the defendants' writ of ror, has reversed a judgment awarded by the circuit court for the plaintU!s for dam. ages and costs, with a direction in its opinion Ilnd mandate, which are both silent as to such costs, that the circuit court enter judgment for the plaintiffs for certain aums and interest thereon, specified by it, the plaintiffs are entitled to judgment in the circuit court for auch specified sums and interest, together with such costs.
At Law. This is a common-law action, commenced in a state court November 12, 1863, and afterwards removed by writ of certiQrari to the circuit court of the United States for the southern distriet of New York. October 3, 1887, after trial thereof, and recovery therein by the plaintiffs, judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiffs for $50,611.98, damages, and 8690.50, costs and disbursements. making the aggregate of $51,302.48. Thp.reafter the defendants sued out a writ of error, the case to the supreme court. April 20, 1891, the supreme court, without, on the argument of the case, having had presented to it by counsel for ita consideration the subject of these costs, filed its decision, (139 U. S. 694, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 683,) by which it decided that "the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded, with a direction to the circuit court to enter judgment for $1,500, and interest from November 16, 1863, and with interest from January 8, 1881." A mandate was for thereafter issued to this court which provides: "On consideration whereof, it is now here ordered and adjudged by this (lourt that the judgment of the said circuit court in this cause be, and the Bame is hereby, reversed, with costs [of the snpreme court;] and that the said defendants recover against the said plaintiffs, George F. W. Bartels et al., for the costs herein expended, and have execution therefor. And it is further ordered that this cause be, and the same is hereby, remanded to the said circuit conrt, with a direction to enter judgment for $1,500, and interest from November 16, 1863, and for $12,894.95, with interest from January 8, 1881. You therefore are hereby commanded that such execution and further proceedings be had in said cause, in conformity with the opinion and judgment of this court, as, according to right and justice and the laws of the United States, ought to be had: the said writ of error notwithstanding."
Upon presenting the mandate of the supreme court to the circuit court, for the purpose of entering judgment as therein directed, the question arose whether or not the plaintiffs were entitled to enter, as part of such judgment, the aforesaid $690.50, costs and disbursements of th" circuit court.
PIERCE V. UNION PAC. RY.
co.
709
Joseph M. Deuel, for plaintiffs. . Edward Mitchell, U. S. Atty., and Thomas Greenwood, Asst. U. S. Atty., for defendants. LACOMBE, Circuit Judge, Co-rally.) The rule is that costs follow recovery, and I see no reason why there should be any exception here. Th6 silE'llce of the supreme court as to costs of this court is not significant, in view of the fact that the subject was not presented to it. Judgmem should therefore be entered for the plaintiffs for the amount of the sum, and the interest thereon specified in the opinion and the mandate of tht supreme court, together with the aforesaid $690.50, costs and disburse· ments of this court.
PIERCE V. UNION PAC.
Ry. Co. October 6, 1891.)
(Circuit Court, S. D.
lowa,
W. D.
DISCOVERY IN ACTION AT LAW--REMOVED CAUSE-t>TATE AND FEDERAL PRACTICE.
Upon removal of an action at law from an Iowa to a United States court, defendant cannot be compelled to file answers to interrogatories attached to the petition, as allowed under the Iowa statute, bince Rev. St. U. S. § 861, provides that the mode of proof in such actions shall, except under certain circumstances, be by oral testimony and examination of witnesses in open court. Ex parte Fisk, 113 U. S. 713, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 724, followed.
At Law. Action to recover damages for wrongful death. On motion for an order requiring an answer to be filed to written interrogatories attached to petition. A. Clark, for plaintiff. lVright & Baldwin, for defendant. Before SHIRAS and \VOOLSON, JJ. SHIRAS, J. This action, being at law, to recover damages caused by the death of Ralph H. Pierce, was brought originally in the district court of Poitawattamie county, Iowa, and was thence removed into this court by the defendant corporation. To the petition as filed in the state court there were attached certain interrogatories, to be answered on behalf of the defendant by the proper officers of the company, the answer to which could, under the provisions of the state statute, have been read in evidence upon the trial of the ease, had such trial taken place in the state court. The plaintiff now moves this court for an order directing the time within which such interrogatories shall be answered, and thus the question is presented, whether, in the federal court, the plaintiff is, of right, entitled to insist upon answers being filed to the interrogatories attached to the petition, in order that the same may be read in evidence upon the