PETTERSON v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY


41 F.2d 219 (1924)

PETTERSON v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY.

District Court, S. D. New York.

October 10, 1924.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Silas B. Axtell, of New York City, for plaintiff.

Frederick J. Moses, of New York City, for defendant.


L. HAND, District Judge (after stating the facts as above).

This is indeed a tangled question under the authorities, resulting from the ambiguity of the statute. The word, "jurisdiction," in the last sentence of section twenty means only venue, Panama R. Co. v. Johnson, 264 U.S. 375, 383-385, 44 S.Ct. 391, 68 L. Ed. 748, but the Supreme Court has never said whether the state court had jurisdiction of such actions. Judge Cushman, in...

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