MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The complainant herein is a citizen of the State of Kentucky, while the defendant is a citizen of the State of Louisiana, and a case of diverse citizenship therefore appears on the record. The complainant is transacting its business in several States, in a territory which is said to be four hundred miles wide and one thousand miles long, beginning in Indiana and Illinois...
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