43 F. 700 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont | 1890
This suit was brought in the court of chancery of the state, was removed into this court on petition of the defendant receiver, and has been heard on motion of the oratrix to remand, because, as said, not arising under the constitution or laws of the United States, and removed out of time. The bill on its face shows the suit to be brought to recover property solely acquired by the removing defendant, as receiver of a national bank, under direction of the comptroller of the currency, by force of. the laws of the United States, and that his defense must rest, if any he has, upon authority given by those laws. The words in the act of 1888 (25 St. 434) on which this question arises are the same as those of the act of 1875, (18 St. 470,) upon which Tennessee v. Davis, 100 U. S. 257, and Railroad Co. v. Mississippi, 102 U. S. 135, were decided. Those decisions seem to settle that when the acts complained of in a suit are done under a law of the United States, or the defense must rest upon such a law, the suit arises under the laws of the United States.
The act. of 1888 provides for filing the petition for removal in the “state court, at the time or any time before the defendant is required by the laws of the state, or the rule of the state court in which such suit is brought, to answer or plead to the declaration or complaint of the plaintiff.” The rules of the court of chancery of the state provide that every stated term shall be treated as continuing,- though in -recess, until the next stated term;, that the subpoena shall require the appearance of the defendant on the first day of a stated term, or the bill will be taken as confessed; and„that the defendant shall answer within 40 days from the return-day of the process, or the day fixed for entering an appearance. Rules, 1, 9, 24. The subpoena required the defendants to appear on the second Tuesday in April, — the first day of the April term. The petition was filed on the 4th day of September. The next stated