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FEDERAL REPORTER.
Here there is an entire absence of any such memorandum, and the affirmative proof shows that the trustee who acted as auctioneer did not understand that a sale was made or the lot struck off on Mrs. Hil. liard's bid. The rule above quoted is affirmed in Doty v. Wilder, 15 Ill. 407, and has ever since been followed by the courts of this state. It is urged upon the partof the defendant that Wright was a necessary party to this suit. I cannot see how that can be under the facts in the case, because there was nothing of record showing Wright's interest, and no binding contract extant showing any interest in him. The only rule that I know of is that the complainant must make those parties who are known to him to have a legal or equitable interest in the property, or whom the pleadings or proof discloses have such an interest as that the court cannot proceed to a decree without bringing them into the case. The complainant in this case is not obliged now, on this alleged sale, to amend his bill and make Wright a party any more than he would if it had been disclosed on the hearing that Mr. Hilliard had made a verbal agreement, void under the statute of frauds, to sell the property to some third person. I therefore think there is nothing shown in the case which should deprive the complainant of his decree. There will, therefore, be a decree entered against the defendant.
JOHNSON
v.
THE PHILADELPHIA,
&
BALTIMORE
R. Co.-
(Circuit Oourt, E. D. Pennsylvania. May 1, 1881.) l. REMOVAL OF CAUSES-CITIZENSHIP-OONBOLIDATED R.ULRoAD TER FROM DIFFEREN'l' STATES. HAVING CHAIt-
A railroad formed by the consolidation of three roads chartered respectively by three different states, cannot, when sued in the courts of one of those states by a citizen thereof, remove the case into the federal courts under the act of March 3, 1875, upon the ground that the charters obtained from the other two states gives it a foreign citizenship. 2. !:lAME.
The P., W. & B. Railroad was chartered by the state of Pennsylvania. Subsequently, by concurrent legislation of the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware, it was consolidated with two other roads, chartered respectIvely by the latter two states, the consolidated road retaining the name of the P., W. & B. Railroad. Suit was bronght by a citizen of Pennsylvania, in the courts of that state, against the P., W. & B. Railroad, who thereupon removed the case to the federal court on the ground of foreign citizenship. Held, that the federal court had no jurisdiction, and that the suit should be remanded. "Reported by P. Prichard, Esq, of the Philadelphia bar.
JOHNSON V. PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON & BALTIMORE n. CO.
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Rule to show cause why case should not be remanded to state court. " This was an action at law, brought in a !ltate court' of Pennsylvania by Caroline Johnson against the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railr9ad Company. Defendant filed a petition for removal, under the act of congresS of March 8. 1875, setting forth that was a corporation forriuid by the union of three corporatioIls, viz., the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, which was chartered by the state of Pelm&ylvania, the Wilmington & Susquehanna Railrqad Company, which was formed by the union of two other railroads, one chartered by the state of Delaware and the other by the state of Maryland, and the Baltimore & Port Deposit Railroad Company, chartered by the state of Maryland; that under authority conferred by concurrent legislation of the three states named, articles of union were entered into by said three corporations, by which they were united in one & Baltimore body corporate, under the name of the Philadelphia, Railroad Company, with all the rights, privileges, and immunities which each and all of them possessed under their respective charters; and that the defendant was thus, at the .time this suit was brought, a corporation chartered by and existing under the laws of the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. Under this petition the case was removed to the United States circuit court. Plaintiffs then obtained the present rule to remand.
Gem'ge Haldorn, for plaintiff. Thomas Hart, Jr., and James E. Gowen, for defendant. The court, MoKENNAN, C. J., and BUTLER, D. J., made the rule absolute, and directed the clerk to certify the record to the state court. NOTE. The recent dissent of Judge Nelson in Nashua & Lowell R.v. Boston & Lowell R,. 8 FED. REP. 458, from what he there says" seeD;ls" to have been the conclusion in the above case, renders a full report of the case important; and it is therefore published, although no written opinion has ever been filed; It is to be observed that in the above case, as well as in the later cases of C. & W. I. R. Co. v. L. S. & JJ:l. S. Ry. Co. 5 FED. REP. 19, and Uphoff v. Chicago, St. L. & N. O. R. Co. Id. 545, which followed its ruling, the consolidated railroad was sued as defendant in a court of one of the states by which it was chartered. The plaintiff had the right to treat it as a corporation of the state in which he sued, and the railroad company could not defeat that right or remove the cause by subsequently alleging a foreign citizenship under its other charters. In the Massachusetts case, however, the situation of the parties was exactly reversed; the consolidated corporation being the plaintiff instead of defendant, and having elected to sue as a foreign citizen by virtue of its foreign charter. Though an individual may insist upon suing such a corporation nnder the charter granted by his own state, it does not necessarily follow that he can object, to being sned by it under the charter granted by a foreign state. It will be seen, therefore, by a comparison of the facts in the two cases, that the decision in the Pennsylvania case does not necessarily con6ict with the decision rendered in the Massltchusetts case.-[REI'.