Case Name: Heirs of Ludlow v. The Heirs of Kidd, Bank of the United States, and others
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1827-12
Citations: 3 Ohio 48
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Heirs of Ludlow v. The Heirs of Kidd, Bank of the United States, and others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cases decided in the supreme court of ohio : upon the circuit at the special sessions in Columbus
Volume: 3
Pages: 42–42

Head Matter:
*Heirs of Ludlow v. The Heirs of Kidd, Bank of the United States, and others.
The Bank of the United States can not remove a causo from a state to a circuit court, under section 12 of the judicial act of 1789.
The heirs of Ludlow, having upon a bill of review obtained the reversal of a decree pronounced against them, in favor of Kidd, 2 Ohio, 372, proceeded against the other parties who had become interested. The Bank of the United States appeared, and presented a petition to remove the cause to the Circuit Court of the United States. The decision of the motion was adjourned here, by the Supreme Court sitting in Hamilton county.
Caswell, for the motion.
Hammond, against it.

Opinion:
By the Court:
The charter of the bank contains no provision authorizing the removal of a cause, upon the application of the bank, from a state to a circuit court. Section 12 of the judicial act of 1789, extends this privilege to parties who are particularly enumerated. The bank is not one of them, and can not claim what the law does not provide for it.
Besides, the bank is one of many defendants. It has been the settled construction of section 12 of the law of Congress of 1789, that the privileged defendant could not extend his privilege to his co-defendant. In this case, there is no pretense that any of the other defendants are entitled to litigate the matter in dispute, in the federal court. The motion must be overruled.