Court Opinion

ID: 9449477
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:13:36.663556+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:51.346842
License: Public Domain

SMITH, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
While I do not share the doubts as to Vermont’s constitutional power to give its courts jurisdiction over this claim, and incline to the belief that such jurisdiction would be asserted here, Somerville Lumber Co. v. Mackres, 86 Vt. 466, 85 A. 977 (1913), I agree that Angel v. Bullington, 330 U.S. 183, 67 S.Ct. 657, 91 L.Ed. 832 (1947) and Woods v. Interstate Realty Co., 337 U.S. 535, 69 S.Ct. 1235, 93 L.Ed. 1524 (1949), look toward application of^ state standards as to amenability to suit^; at least in diversity cases such as this. I also agree that it is desirable that the\ District Judge, experienced in Vermont Law, pass upon the Vermont law issue in the first instance, and that he should dispose first of the issues of jurisdiction and venue before considering whether a claim has been stated on which relief may be granted, all on the present complaint and affidavits or such amplification as he may see fit to allow,