Memorandum opinion by direction of the court. By MR. JUSTICE LURTON.
The single question for our consideration upon this writ of error concerns the jurisdiction of the state court to proceed with the action after one of the original defendants had filed its petition and bond for removal to the Circuit Court of the United States.
If, as we shall assume, there was a separable controversy and the requisite diversity of citizenship, it was the duty of the state...
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