HARKER v. KOPP

No. 58C46.

172 F.Supp. 180 (1959)

George C. HARKER, Plaintiff, v. Morton KOPP and Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company, a Foreign Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, W. D.

April 3, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Collins and Edwin T. Powers, Jr., Rockford, Ill., for plaintiff.

Strom & Strom, Belvidere, Ill., for defendant Kopp.

J. P. Reedy, E. O. Schiewe and Edwin J. Richardson, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific R. Co.


PERRY, District Judge.

The complaint before the court consists of two counts, and jurisdiction, in each instance, is sought on the ground of diversity of citizenship.

In Count I, plaintiff, George C. Harker, a citizen of Wisconsin, complains of defendant Morton Kopp, a citizen of Illinois, and alleges "That on or about the 16th day of November, 1957, the plaintiff, George C. Harker, was riding as a fare-paying passenger in a certain railroad train being then...

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