...the plaintiffs or defendants may have no real interest. The statute says that "when, in any suit, * * there shall be a controversy which is wholly between...and which can be fully determined as between them," etc. It does not say an actual controversy, which would exclude merely nominal parties, nor the principal...

...1875 alone, there might be room for grave doubt. The last clause of that section is as fallows : " And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall...which is wholly between citizens of different states, cmd which can be fully determined as belween them, then either one or more of the plaintiffs or defendants...

...the proper district by the defendant or defendants therein, being non-residents of that state. And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall...which is wholly between citizens of different states, arid which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually...

...from one or more of several plaintiffs or defendants the power to remove in any suit where there is a controversy which is wholly between citizens of...and which can be fully determined as between them. The dissatisfaction evinced by the introduction of this bill has been caused in part by the provision...

...necessary party, so as to make a case within the first subdivision of section 2 of the act of 1875; nor any controversy which is wholly between citizens of different...and which can be fully determined as between them without the presence of a defendant citizen of the same state with the plaintiff actually interested...

...nature of that in hand may be removed to the federal court when there shall be a controversy in it which is wholly between citizens of different states,...and which can be fully determined as between them. In Barnev v. Latham, 103 US 205, 214, 26 L. Ed. 514, the complainant's exhibited a bill against certain...

...the proper district by the defendant or defendants therein, being nonresidents of that state : and when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly lietween citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either...

...the act of March 3, 1875, any suit mentioned therein is removable whenever it involves a controversy wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, upon the petition of either one or more of the plaintiffs or defendants actually interested in such...

...between citizens of different states, and can be fully determined as between them, it authorizes any one or more of the plaintiffs or defendants actually interested in such controversy to remove the suit. This act repeals all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith. The act of 1875...

...same state as the plaintiff, Franklin A. Reed, and that the controVersy of Mrs. Butler Reed is not wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined between them, — the record shows that Franklin A. Reed, the plaintiff, is a citizen of Ohio, and...