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BANK OF MONTREAL v. OLAFSSON

No. 79-1672.

648 F.2d 1078 (1981)

BANK OF MONTREAL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thorhallur G. OLAFSSON, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 12, 1981.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 7, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilfrid L. Burke, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

Mark Pierce, Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellee.

Before ENGEL and MERRITT, Circuit Judges and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 7, 1981.

PER CURIAM.

The plaintiff is a Canadian corporation, and the defendant a citizen of Iceland. The issue here is whether the trial court erred in setting aside a default judgment it had entered more than a year earlier. The ground for setting it aside was that it had no subject matter jurisdiction because the requisite diversity of citizenship was lacking.1

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