“This is a bill brought by a citizen of New Jersey against certain individuals, citizens of this state, and an incorporated society under the name of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, praying a discovery and relief against each. To this bill, the defendants put in a joint and several plea to the jurisdiction of the court, alleging that four persons, naming them, members and corporators of the said company, were, at the time of filing the bill, and of issuing the subpoena, and now are, citizens of the state of New Jersey, and residing therein. The cause having been set down for hearing on the plea, the facts stated in the plea must be taken as true, and the question to which they give rise is, whether the circumstance that some of the members of the corporation are citizens of the state of New Jersey, is a ground for ousting the jurisdiction of this, court, as to all the defendants, or as to the corporate body?”
4 Wash. C. C. 595