Case Name: Walter Crane v. Edwin Reeder and another; and Walter Crane v. Edwin Reeder and others
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1876-10-25
Citations: 35 Mich. 146
Docket Number: 
Parties: Walter Crane v. Edwin Reeder and another; and Walter Crane v. Edwin Reeder and others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 35
Pages: 140–141

Head Matter:
Walter Crane v. Edwin Reeder and another; and Walter Crane v. Edwin Reeder and others.
Removal of causes: Act of March 8,1875. Under the act of congress of March 3,1875 (18 U. S. Slat, at Large, ¿70), for the removal of causes from the state to the federal courts, a cause which has been three times tried upon the merits and three times reviewed in the state supreme court on j udgments rendered upon such trials, prior to the passage of the act in question, is not removable.
Removal of causes. But a case which had never been tried at all when the act was passed is subject to removal, where the application is made at the first term after the act took effect and anterior to trial.
Submitted on briefs October 6.
Decided October 25.
Erroi to Wayne Circuit.
*Douglass & Bowen and W. P. Wells, for plaintiff in error,
cited: 21 Mich., 124; 22 Mich., 322; 25 Mich., 303; 28 Mich., 527; 19 Wall., 214; Ibid., 575; Vannever v. Bryant, 21 Wall.; 112 Mass., 339; 55 N. H., 141; Chandler v. Coe, 15 Law Reg. N. S., 540; 18 Wall., 553; 2 Central L. J., 797; 8 Chicago L. N., 122; 3 Central L. J., 13; 7 Chicago L. N., 241; 30 Mich., 453, 459; 50 Ind., 60; 11 N. Y., 628; 36 N. Y., 520; 13 N. Y., 197; 10 N. Y., 409; 40 N. Y., 233.
No counsel appeared for defendants in error.
On removal of causes to federal courts, sea Grane v. Reeder, 28 Mich., 527; 30 id,, 459; Crane v. Seitz, 30 id., 453; Rome Ins. Co. v. Curtis, 32 id., 402; Mabley v. Judge Superior Cowrt, ■41 id., 31; Leroux v. Bay Circuit Judge, 46 id., 189; Schwab v. Coots, 48 id., 116.

Opinion:
Pee Curiam:
On the 19th of November, 1875, petitions and bonds were presented by the defendants in each of these oases to the court below for the removal of the actions to the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Michigan under the act of congress of March 3, 1875.
And the court below accepted the petitions and bonds and approved the same. The plaintiff now asks a reversal of this action of the court below, on writ of error. The first named cause had been tried three times upon the merits in the court below and had been three times examined in this court on different writs of error brought on judgments given in the court below prior to the passage of the act of congress before mentioned, and we think it was not removable under that act, and that the court erred in holding the contrary.
The second ease had not been tried at all when the act referred to was passed, and the application for its removal appears to have been made at the first term held after the act, and anterior to trial, and we are inclined to think it was subject to removal.
The determination of the court below in the first cause must be reversed, and in the second, we are disposed to dismiss the writ of error.