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      "BERTIE STUBBS, Administratrix of ROBERT W. STUBBS, v. CHICAGO MILL AND LUMBER CORPORATION and W. B. EBNER."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Pee Cueiam.\nTbis is an action for personal injury resulting in tbe death of the plaintiff\u2019s intestate. The defendant Ebner is a resident of Washington County, North Carolina, and the Chicago Mill and Lumber Corporation is a corporation created and organized under the laws of the State of Delaware. The amount in controversy exceeds $3,000 exclusive of interest and costs.\nThe corporate defendant filed a petition for the removal of the cause to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, specifically and fully setting out the grounds of the motion: not only diversity of citizenship and fraudulent joinder of parties, but the pending of substantially the same caus\u00e9 of action in the District Court. Stubbs v. Chicago Mill and Lumber Corporation et al., 199 N. C., 807. The statements contained in the petition must for the purpose of the motion be taken as true, the plaintiff having the right to answer, join issue with the petition or move to remand from the District Court to the State Court. Wilson v. Republic Iron & Steel Co., 257 U. S., 92, 66 L. Ed., 144.\nAffirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "W. L. Whitley and Ward & Grimes for plaintiff.",
      "Zeb Vance Norman and MacLean & Rodman for defendants."
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    "head_matter": "BERTIE STUBBS, Administratrix of ROBERT W. STUBBS, v. CHICAGO MILL AND LUMBER CORPORATION and W. B. EBNER.\n(Filed 16 September, 1931.)\nRemoval of Causes C b \u2014 Allegations in petition for removal will be taken as true, plaintiff having right to join issue or move for remand.\nWhere a nonresident defendant files petition and bond for tbe removal of a cause from the State to the Federal Court upon diversity of citizenship and pending of the same action in the Federal Court, and the amount is jurisdictional in the latter Court, for the purpose of the motion the statement contained in the petition is taken as true, the plaintiff having the right to answer, join issue with the petition or move to remand from the District to the State Court, and the defendant\u2019s petition to remove the cause as prayed, should be allowed.\nAppeal by plaintiff from Grady, J. From WASHINGTON.\nAffirmed.\nW. L. Whitley and Ward & Grimes for plaintiff.\nZeb Vance Norman and MacLean & Rodman for defendants."
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