REEVES, District Judge.
The above cases were removed from a state court to this court upon the grounds of (a) a fraudulent joinder and (b) a separable controversy.
The suits are for damages alleged to have accrued to the plaintiffs by reason of a gas explosion at Sugar Creek, Missouri. The corporate defendant was engaged in furnishing natural gas to the residents of Sugar Creek. It did this by carrying the gas through its mains, lines, pipes and conduits....
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