Morrison Waite

“ Hutchinson is a citizen of Louisiana, but all the rest of the defendants are citizens of Texas. On the ninth of February, 1884, a supplemental petition was filed in the suit, alleging that C. P. Huntington had become the owner of the note given to Morgan, and bringing him in as a defendant. ”

“ This is an appeal under section 5 of the act of March 3, 1875, c. 137, (18 St. 470,) from an order of the circuit court remanding a suit which had been removed from a state court. The suit was begun December 18, 1883, in the circuit court of Harris county, Texas, by Henry Seeligson, a citizen of that state, and the owner of 20 shares of the capital stock of the Texas Transportation Company, a Texas corporation, against that company, and A. C. Hutchinson, Charles Fowler, E. W. Cave, and L. Megget, its directors and principal officers, for an account of the affairs of the company ”