Morrison Waite

“ An averment of residence is not the equivalent of an averment of citizenship for the purposes of jurisdiction in the courts of the United States. Accordig to the pleadings, the Huntsville Female Academy is an Alabama corporation, and the other defendants are residents of either Alabama or Tennessee. The decree dismissing both the original and cross-bills is reversed, because the record fails to show the jurisdiction of the circuit court ”

“ This whole subject has already been considered twice during the present term,-once in Continental Ins. Co. v. Rhoads, 119 U.S. 237, ante, 193; and again in Peper v. Fordyce, 119 U.S. 469, ante, 287. The reasons for our judgment sufficiently appear in the opinions delivered in those cases. ”