“These causes came before the court upon rules to show cause why the proceedings in both should not be stayed, and the causes dismissed for want of jurisdiction, and why the writ of inquiry, and all proceedings under it, in the first case, should not be quashed. The ground upon which the first part of the rule, in the first of these cases, and the rule in the second, was rested was, that although the declaration in the first case alleges the plaintiff to be a citizen of Pennsylvania, and the defendant a citizen of Maryland, yet in point of fact, Oppenheimer was a citizen of Pennsylvania at the time the suit was commenced, to prove which on the one side, and to disprove it on the other, a number of depositions were read.”
Case Citation
4 Wash. C. C. 482