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WILLIAMS v. NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY

Civ. No. 1414.

125 F.Supp. 842 (1954)

Johnnie WILLIAMS v. NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY.

United States District Court, N. D. Indiana, Hammond Division.

November 17, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Henry Walker, East Chicago, Ind., for plaintiff.

Owen Crumpacker, Edmund Schroer, Hammond, Ind., Lowell E. Enslen, Hobart, Ind., for defendant.

SWYGERT, Chief Judge.

The complaint alleged that the plaintiff is a "resident" of the State of Indiana and that the defendant is not a "resident" of Indiana. In its answer the defendant denied there is diversity of citizenship, claiming that it "is a citizen of the State of Indiana by virtue of the Railroad Corporation Act." At pre-trial the question of the jurisdiction of the court over the subject-matter of the claim because of the alleged lack of diversity was...

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