STATE v. TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION CORPORATION

Civ. No. 3588.

171 F.Supp. 413 (1959)

STATE OF ARKANSAS ex rel. Bruce BENNETT, Attorney General, by Ovid T. SWITZER, Special Counsel, Plaintiff, v. TEXAS GAS TRANSMISSION CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

March 6, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., of Arkansas, and Ovid T. Switzer, Crossett, Ark., and Carneal Warfield, Special Counsel, Lake Village, Ark., for defendant.

Canada, Russell & Turner and J. Martin Regan, Memphis, Tenn., and Burnside & Burnside, Lake Village, Ark., for plaintiff.


BECK, District Judge.

The Court's jurisdiction, in this case, on plaintiff's Motion to Remand, is being challenged on two grounds: (1) that there is no diversity of citizenship and (2) that there is no federal question. The case originally was commenced in the Chancery Court of Chicot County, Arkansas, thereafter transferred to the Circuit Court and from there, within the 20-day time limit and under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1446(b) removed here.

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