Blum v. Thomas & Germany

Citations

• 60 Tex. 158
• 2 Tex. L. R. 403
• 1883 Tex. LEXIS 287

Syllabus

<p>1. Jurisdiction.— A state court can take no action in a cause once pending before it, after the filing in a circuit court of the United States of a sufficient petition for its removal to that court; following Tex. & P. R. R. Co. v. McAllister, 69 Tex., 349.</p> <p>2. Jurisdiction.— When both the appellees and all the appellants except one were citizens of Texas, and that one was the mercantile partner of the two other appellants, doing business in Texas, and as such partner was sued jointly for a wrongful conversion by his firm of goods, there being nothing to show any separate claim or question in which the non-resident partner was alone interested, no transfer of the cause can be made to a circuit court of the United States on the ground that one of the partners was a citizen of another state; following Corbin v. Van Brunt, 105 U. S., 577; Removal Cases, 103 U. S., 457, and other cases cited in opinion.</p> <p>3. Damages.— When suit is brought for damages for the illegal conversion of goods, if the plaintiff be entitled to recover, the measure of damages would ordinarily be the value of the goods at the time of their conversion with legal interest thereon from that time.</p>