CAMP v. GRESS

No. 279.

250 U.S. 308 (1919)

CAMP ET AL. v. GRESS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 2, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T.D. Savage and Mr. Thomas H. Willcox for petitioners.

Mr. D. Lawrence Groner and Mr. W.M. Toomer, with whom Mr. Alexander Akerman was on the briefs, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

Section 51 of the Judicial Code declares that (with exceptions not here material) "no civil suit shall be brought in any district court against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant; but where the jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of...

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