129 F. 1003 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Kentucky | 1904
In 1885 the plaintiff received a certificate of membership (equivalent to a policy of life insurance) in the defendant company for $5,000. He continued to pay the dues and assessments up to some time in 1901, when, as he avers, the company increased the amount of such dues and assessments far beyond what was stipulated in the contract, and beyond his ability to pay, and thus forced him out of the association. The dues and assessments thus paid by him amounted to $1,527.25, and he has sued to recover that sum, with interest thereon from the respective dates of payment, the aggregate of which on September 1, 1903, was $2,346.50. The prayer of the petition is in this language:
“Wherefore plaintiff prays Judgment against the defendant in the sum of $2,346.50, being the amount of dues and assessments paid to this date, with interest on the same to September 1, 1903, and for interest on the same from said date, for the costs herein expended, and for all proper and equitable relief.”
The defendant, alleging itself to be a citizen of New York, and the plaintiff to be a citizen ofi Kentucky, removed the case into this court,
It results that the motion to remand the action to the state court must be, and it is, sustained.