Central of Georgia Railway Company, Third-Party v. Riegel Textile Corporation, Third-Party

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• holding that third-party defendants are defendants within the terms of 28 U.S.C. § 1441
• holding that third-party defendants are defendants within the terms of 28 U.S.C. § 1441
• holding that a third-party defendant may remove a case to federal court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a) when the state court has severed the third-party demand from the principal demand
• finding removal proper after a state court severed a third-party complaint
• ‘Where removal would not have the effect of defeating plaintiffs choice of forum, the federal courts should recognize that a party in Riegel’s position is as much a ‘defendant’ as if an original action had been brought against him.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).