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:MAY v. LE CLAIRE and others. (Circuit Court,8. D. Illinoi8.
July, 1883.)
REMOVAL OF CAUSE FROM ONE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT TO ANOTHER.
Section 615 of the Revised Statutes. authorizing s cause to be transferred from one circuit" into the circuit court of the next adjoining state, or the next adjoining circuit court," must be construedss giving all the powers necessary to the court in order to carry the litigation between the parties into judgment or decree.
DRUMMOND, J. This case was transferred from the circuit court of the United States in Iowa to the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of Illinois, under section 615 of the Revised Statutes. At the time of the transfer, George L. Davenport, the executor of Antoine Le Claire, had answered the bill. After the transfer, Davenport resigned as executor, and Louis A. Le Claire was, by the proper court in Iowa, appointed administrator with the will annexed in the place of George L. Davenport, and Le Claire accepted the appointment. In this court, on the ninth of December last, the parties appeared by their counsel, and it is stated in the record that Davenport had ceased to be executor, and that Louis A. Le Claire had been appointed executor of the estate of Antoine Le Claire in his stead, and that he had accepted such appointment, and thereupon Louis A. Le Claire was made defendant in the cause and a subpoona ordered to issue against him, which, not having been properly served upon him, on the sixteenth of February last another subpoona was directed to be issued to the marshal of the district of Iowa, and that subpoona has been served upon him. It is objected on the part (}f the defendant that this action of the court was unauthorized, and that Louis A. Le Claire is not properly in court and subject to its jurisdiction. Assuming that the case has been brought within the proper rule on the subject, namely, the fifty. sixth rule in equity, and that as to Davenport there was an abatement of th'e suit, and that it has been revived as to Louis A. Le Claire, the question is whether the court had the right to bring him before it, so that he has become subject to its jurisdiction by the action named; and I am of the opinion that it had. I agree that the circuit court had no right to issue any process to be executed outside of the district, and particularly in the district of another state, unless authorized by law; but it is not neces· sary that the authority should be expressly given by the act of con· gress. It is sufficient, if it can be clearly deduced from the legislation of congress, that it is indispensably necessary in order to carry into effect the action of the court which the law of congress has authorized. Now, in this case, it is very clear when the 615th section authorized a case to be transferred from one circuit "into v.18,no.2-4
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the circuit court of the next adjoining state, or the next adjoining circuit court," that it was the intention to give all the powers necessary in order to carry the litigation between the parties into judgment or decree. Notwithstanding the statute merely refers to and authorizes "the proper process for the due execution of the judgment or the decree rendered in the cause" to run into the district from which the cause was removed, it is apparent that unless the court has the power necessary, and which often must be exercised by courts in order to reach the judgment or decree, that there never could be any process issued to execute the decree or judgment. It is, therefore, one of those cases where the power is necessarily implied from the express declaration of powers given, and without which the latter powers might never be called into exercise.
HORNE
v.
BOSTON
& M. R. R. October 13, 1883.)
(Olrcuit Oourt, D. New Hampshi,re. DICTION OF FEDER.<\.L COURTS.
The supreme court hasdecided that when the same corporation owning a road which runs through several states is chartered by each of them, it is, by a useful fiction, to be considered for purposes of jurisdiction a citizen of each of the states; and where such'a corporation is sued in one.of the states in which it holds a charter, as a citizen of that state, it cannot set up that it is likewise a citizen of another. 2. SAME.
The fiction that makes two or three corporations out of what is in fact one, is established for the purpose of giving each state its legitimate control over the charters which it grants; !Jut the acts and neglects of the corporation are done by it as a whole.
Motion to Remand. Marston ct Eastman, for plaintiff. Mr. Copeland, for defendant. LOWELL, J. The plaintiff, a citizen of New Hampshire, brought his action in one of the courts of that state against the defendants, as a corporation duly established and having a place of business at Exeter, in the same state, for personal injuries sustained through the fault of the defendants· at Lawl'ence, in the state of Massachusetts, setting his damages at more than $500. The defendants, in due season, filed their petition, and moyed to remove the action to this court. The justice refused to order the removal, and his ruling has been sustained by the full bench of the supreme court of New Hampshire. I have seen the opinIon of the court, and agree with it, but as it may not be published for some time I will give briefly the facts of the case and the authorities which apply to them. The defendants were first incorporated in New Hampshire by their