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PILKENTON v. KINGSPORT PUBLISHING CORPORATION

Civ. A. No. 67-C-24-A.

270 F.Supp. 315 (1967)

Earl V. PILKENTON, Plaintiff, v. KINGSPORT PUBLISHING CORPORATION, Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. Virginia, Abingdon Division.

June 17, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl E. McAfee, Cline & McAfee, and Don R. Pippin, Norton, Va., for plaintiff.

G. R. C. Stuart, Penn, Stuart & Miller, Abingdon, Va., for defendant.

OPINION AND JUDGMENT

DALTON, Chief Judge.

This case comes before the court upon a complaint filed by a citizen of Virginia against an Ohio corporation which operates a newspaper business in Kentucky. Thus there is diversity of citizenship and the requisite $10,000 jurisdictional amount will be deemed to be present under the "plaintiff's viewpoint" rule since the plaintiff sues for $1,000,000 and it is not clear...

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