MANITOBA RAILWAY COMPANY v. BURTON


111 U.S. 788 (1884)

ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS & MANITOBA RAILWAY COMPANY v. BURTON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 5th, 1884.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Enoch Totten for defendant in error in support of the motion.

No brief filed in opposition.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The order remanding this case is affirmed. The act of March 3d, 1875, c. 137, sec. 5, 18 Stat. 470, makes it the duty of the Circuit Court to remand a suit which has been removed from a State court when it satisfactorily appears that the "suit does not really and substantially involve a dispute or controversy properly within the jurisdiction of said Circuit Court." The exemplification of the record of the...

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