Case Name: FLETCHER v. TURNER
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of Indiana
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1853-05
Citations: 9 F. Cas. 274
Docket Number: Case No. 4,867
Parties: FLETCHER v. TURNER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 9
Pages: 274–274

Head Matter:
Case No. 4,867.
FLETCHER v. TURNER.
[5 McLean, 468.]
Circuit Court, D. Indiana.
May Term, 1853.
Mr. Scoby, for plaintiff.
Walpole & Walpole, for defendant.
[Reported by Hon. John McLean, Circuit Justice.]

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT. This action is brought by the assignee of the notes against the maker, payable to George Fletcher, sen., who assigned them to the plaintiff. In the declaration there is no allegation of the citizenship of the assignor of the plaintiff, and if he were a citizen of Indiana, at the time of the assignment, under the 11th section of the judiciary act of 1789 [1 Stat. 73], this court has no jurisdiction of the case. In such a case the assignee cannot sue in this court, unless the assignor could have brought suit in it on the note assigned, and this he could not have done, if the assignor was a citizen of Indiana. In the declaration, to give jurisdiction to the court, the citizenship of the assignor should have been alleged. The demurrer which has been filed to the declaration must, therefore, be sustained.