Hanrick v. Hanrick

Citations

• 153 U.S. 192
• 14 S. Ct. 835
• 38 L. Ed. 685
• 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2175

Syllabus

<p>Under the act of March 3, 1887, c. 373, corrected by the act of August 13, 1888, c. 866, (as under earlier acts,) one of several defendants, being a citizen of the same State as a plaintiff, cannot remove a cause from a state court into the Circuit Court of the United States upon the ground of prejudice and local influence between himself and the other defendants.</p> <p>A defendant, who wrongfully removes a cause from a state court into the . Circuit Court, from whose decree appeals are taken by himself and other parties to this court, must, upon reversal of the decree by this court for want of jurisdiction in the Circuit Court, pay the costs in that court, as well as of all the appeals to this court.</p>