Court Opinion

ID: 9446502
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:56:48.431457+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:40.685772
License: Public Domain

LEWIS, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
The petition for removal here alleged a fraudulent joinder of parties defendant for the specific purpose of defeating removal and pointed up the sham in particularity by allegations that these defendants had nothing whatsoever to do with the acts claimed to be the basis of plaintiff’s cause of action as pleaded in the complaint. By response to the petition, plaintiff denied the allegations of the petition and moved to remand. The trial court then held a hearing upon the issues and ruled favorably to petitioners’ contentions. Such hearing necessarily *410explored the good faith of plaintiff, a question of fact. The instant record does not show in any way the evidence considered by the trial court and as a consequence we can in no way hold the basis of his ruling to be clearly erroneous and must affirm. To me, the case is as simple as that.