Court Opinion

ID: 3670663
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:19:13.524763+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:45:39.404555
License: Public Domain

Petition for removal to United States District Court on the ground of diversity of citizenship and separable controversy. The ruling of the clerk denying the petition was affirmed by the judge of the Superior Court, and petitioner appealed to this Court.
The plaintiff alleged a personal injury caused by the joint negligence of each of the defendants in the operation of motor vehicles on the highway, setting out the facts and claiming damages in the sum of ten thousand dollars. The plaintiff and the defendants Snider Brothers, Inc., and J. W. Kluttz, are residents of North Carolina, and the appellant is a Georgia corporation.
The complaint alleges that the truck of defendant Snider Brothers, Inc., and that of appellant collided, due to negligence of both, and that as proximate result of joint and concurring negligence of both, plaintiff was struck and injured.
Upon a petition for removal to the Federal Court on the ground of separable controversy, the plaintiff is entitled to have her cause of action considered as stated in her complaint, and the motion must be determined by the facts therein set forth. Moses v. Morganton, 192 N.C. 102; *Page 778 Crisp v. Fibre Co., 193 N.C. 77; Brown v. R. R., 204 N.C. 25;Trust Co. v. R. R., 209 N.C. 304; R. R. v. Dixon, 179 U.S. 131.
The facts alleged in the instant case are distinguishable from those on which the decision in Brown v. R. R., supra, was based.
It is obvious that plaintiff has here alleged a cause of action based upon the joint and concurring negligence of both resident and nonresident tort-feasors, at the same time and place, and that the complaint does not show a separable controversy.
The petition for removal was properly denied.
Affirmed.