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3,1882. Mr. Justice Matthews delivered the opinion otthe court reversing the judgment. The certificate of the treasury department declaring an account contained in a treasury transcript to be an account between the,United States and the collector of internal revenUEl, has the legal effect of making the treasury transcript prima facie evidence of the fact of indebtedness which it certifies, unless upon the face of the account it necessarily appears to be otherwise. Excluding a treasury transcript, wh.en offered in eVidence, is error, even if collections embodied· therein were made at a preceding term, if containing charges admittedly collected during the term. Collector's receipts are admissible in evidence to prove the debit side of his account; and, being part. of his official transactions, forming the basis of the acconnt against bim upon the books of the treasury, department, their exclusion is erroneous. S. F. Phillips, Solicitor General, for·plaintiff in error. W. L Nugent, for defendants in error.
County Bonds-,.Negotiability. LEWIS 1'. COUNTY COMMIS\lIONERS, U. B. Sup. Ct.. Oct. Term, 1881. Error to the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kansas. This case was determined in the supreme court of the United States on March 13,1882. Mr. Justice Harlan delivered the opinion of the'court reversing the judgment of the circuit court. The act .cf Kansas of March 2, 1872, 'did not require as a necessary prerequisite to the negotiability of certain county bonds, unconditional on their face, that they should in all cases pass through the hands of the trelj.Surer before reaching the auditor. The action and certificate of the auditor are conclusive evidence, as between the county and a bona ftde holder, that bonds unconditional upon their face were regularly and legally issued, and therefore negotiable. James Grant, for plaintiff in error. Edward Spellings, Thomas B. Fenlon, and A. M. F. Randolph, for defendant in error. Practice-Setting Aside Default. JAMES 1'. MCCORMA.CK, U.S. Sup. Ct., Oct. Term·. lS81. Appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the western district of Virginia. The motion to reinstate· this cause was denied after hearing on AprilS,1882. Mr. Chief Justice Waite delivered the opinion of the court. When the appellant was called and his appeal dismissed the case bad been nearly three years on the docket. He had no brief on file, and was not present, either in person or by counsel. He has not excused himself for his default, and the l'ule will be rigidly enforced, not to set aside defaults growing out of the neglect of counsel or parties, except for very good cause.
CONNELL
v.
UTICA1 U. & E. B. CO.
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CONNELL,
Adm'r, etc.,
'1:. UTICA, U.
& E. R.
CO.
and others.
(Circuit Court, No D. New York. July 28, 1882.1 1. RE}!OVAL OF OAUSE-ON GROUND OF OITIZENSHIP.
A cause is not removahle under the first clause of section 2 of the act of March 3, 1875, unless all the parties on one side are citizens of different states frum those on the other, and all the defendants must join in the petition. 2. SAME-SEPARATE OONTIlOVERSY.
A suit is not removable under the second clause of section unless it is.a separate controversy, w!lollybetween citizens of different 3. REPEAL OF ACT OF 1866. The second clause of section 639 of the Hevised J:)tatutes is repealed by the act of March 3, 1875.
S. H. Wilcox, for plaintiff. J. H. Choate, for defendant King. BLATCHFORD,J nstice. This suit was not removable under tb,e first clause of section 2 of the act of March 3, 1875, because all the parties on one side of the cOJ;ltroversy were not citizens of differentst.ates from those on the other, and also because all the defendants did not petition for removal. Nor was the suit removable under the Second clause of that section, because there was not in the suit a separate controversy wholly between citizens of different states. To entitlo a party to a removal under the second clause there must exist in the suit a separate and distinct cause of action, in respect to which all the necessary parties on one side are citizens of different states from those on the other. Hyde v. Ruble, 3 Morr. Trans. 516. The present case does not fall within that of Barney v. Latham, 103 U. S. 205. The decision of the state court, at the special and general terms, that the cause of action is entire, is a decision which it is proper for this court to follow, and it leads to the conclusion that there is but a single controversy in the suit, and that parties to the suit who are citizens of the same state with the plaintiff, are necessary parties to the controversy to which the plaintiff and the defendant King are parties. The case of Hydev. Ruble, 81/-pra, decides that the13econd clause of section 639 of the Revised Statutes is repealed by the act of March 8, 1875. The motion to remar.d is granted, with costs, to be taxed. v.13,no.6-16