18 Wis. 700 | Wis. | 1864
By the Court,
The action was ’ commenced in the county court of the county of Milwaukee by the plaintiff, a citizen and resident of this state, against the defendant, a citizen and resident of the state of Ohio. The defendant applied under the twelfth section of the judiciary act of 1789, (U. S. Stat. at Large, p. 79) for the removal of the cause into-the district court of the United States for this district, which was refused. I hold that the defendant’s' petition and proceedings for that purpose were regular, and that the cause ought to have been removed. I think, therefore, that the county court lost jurisdiction of the case, and that the judgment should, for that
In coming to thi¿ conclusion I have no words of apology to offer, and but few observations. The argument oh both sides was long since exhausted. I recede more from that deference and respect which is always due to the enlightened and well considered opinions of others, than from any actual change in my own views. The judgment of the majority in that case is sustained by weighty and powerful reasons. Like reasons aré not wanting on the other side, and that side is sustained by the almost unanimous judgments of all the courts both of England and this country. I think I am bound to yield to this unbroken current of judicial opinion. At the time that decision was announced, -it was supposed that the doctrine had been or would be sustained by the courts of Ohio and Indiana; but by the reports which have more recently reached us, it appears that they hold the very opposite (Whaalm v. The Mad River & Lake Erie R. R. Co., 8 Ohio St., 249; The Ohio & Miss. P.
Judgment reversed, and a new trial awarded.