Opinion ID: 6500338
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Heading: Wagstaff’s Citizenship

Text: Wagstaff is a Missouri limited liability partnership. “When one of the parties to the action is a limited partnership, the citizenship of each general and limited partner must be considered in determining whether complete diversity of citizenship exists.” Barclay Square Props. v. Midwest Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass’n of Minneapolis, 893 F.2d 968, 969 (8th Cir. 1990). To establish citizenship, Wagstaff filed the declaration of Jack T. Hyde, “a partner at the law firm of Wagstaff.” R. Doc. 32-7, at 1. Hyde set forth a table that he averred “truly and accurately identifies each partner of [Wagstaff] and their corresponding state of citizenship.” Id. The table identified the state of citizenship for the 19 partners as either Kansas or Missouri. Hyde’s declaration properly amends Wagstaff’s complaint to allege the partners’ citizenship. Lewis argues that Hyde’s declaration is insufficient to establish the partners’ citizenship because it does not expressly state that the partners were domiciled in Missouri or Kansas as of the date that Wagstaff filed its complaint. But Wagstaff’s appellate brief represents that all partners were so domiciled at the time of filing. Based on the representation in Wagstaff’s brief and the lack of contrary evidence, we will “treat the complaint as amended to properly allege diversity of citizenship.” Barclay, 893 F.2d at 969; see also id. (“[T]his court may allow the party asserting that -10- subject matter jurisdiction exists to amend its complaint on appeal to properly allege diversity of citizenship.”).