stated the case as above reported and delivered the opiniоn of the court.
The act of 1875 declares that nо Circuit or District Court shall have “cognizance of any suit founded on contract in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been рrosecuted in such court to recover therеon if no assignment had beеn made, except in cases of promissory nоtes negotiable by the' law merchant and bills of exchange.” 18 Stat. 470. It does not аppear that the What Cheer Land and Coal Cоmpany, the plaintiffs’ assignоr, could' have brought suit on the contract in question, if no assignment had been made. The record does not show of what State it is a corporation. The аllegation that it was “ doing businеss in the State of Iowa ” does not necessarily imрort that it was creatеd by the laws of that State. But if that allegation were hеld sufficient to show it was an Iowa corporation, the result would be the same, because, in that cаse, it would appear that the parties to the original contract weré all citizens of Iowa, аnd consequently that the assignor could not have sued the defendants in the Circuit Court of the United States.
The judgment is reversed upon the ground that it does not
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appear, affirmatively, frоm the record that the Circuit Court had jurisdiction,
Metcalf
v.
Watertown,
jReversed.