Westheider v. Wabash R.

Citations

• 115 F. 840
• 1902 U.S. App. LEXIS 4978

Syllabus

<p>Federal Courts — Jurisdiction—Citizenship of Consolidated Corporation.</p> <p>A corporation organized under the laws of a state for the purpose of taking over railroad property owned by a number of other corporations of different states, in accordance with an agreement between them for consolidation, under which they conveyed their properties to the new company, and then went out of existence, is a citizen of the state where it was created by individual corporators, for the purposes of the jurisdiction of a federal court.1</p>