FRANCIS v. GOODMAN

No. 95-1933.

81 F.3d 5 (1996)

Ingrid A.M. FRANCIS and Robert Francis, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. David GOODMAN and Karen Dunnett, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Loretta M. Smith, with whom Charles A. Goglia, Jr., Wellesley, MA, and William E. Ryckman, Jr., Boston, MA, were on brief, for appellants.

Hilary B. Miller, Greenwich, CT, for appellees.

TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and CYR, Circuit Judge.


CYR, Circuit Judge.

After plaintiff-appellant Ingrid Francis ("Francis"), a Massachusetts citizen, instituted this malpractice action in Nantucket Superior Court, defendant Ira Rose, Esquire, a Massachusetts resident now deceased, removed it to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332(a)(1) (diversity jurisdiction) and 1441(a) (1994) (removal).1 Francis promptly...

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