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colorable device

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From 290 U.S. 179 - Bullard v. City of Cisco · 1933Most cited · 260 citing opinions

a colorable device to enable the transferrers, through the favor and name of the transferee, to invoke a federal jurisdiction which they could not invoke in their own right