Stine v. Moore

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• holding that although defendant paid poll taxes, voted, maintained a residence, received mail, and filed federal income taxes in Texas, the defendant’s testimony that he and his wife expected to live in Louisiana “from now on out” supported finding a Louisiana domicile
• “Residence in fact, and the intention of making the place of residence one’s home, are essential elements of domicile.”
• an individual’s \place of residence is prima facie the domicile\ for purposes of diversity jurisdiction
• “[m]ere mental fixing of citizenship is not sufficient” because “what is in another man’s mind must be 1 See, e.g., Preston v. Tenet Healthsystem Mem’l Med. Ctr., Inc., 485 F.3d 804, 816 (5th Cir. 2007
• treating residency as prima facie domicile

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).