Chapter 11. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, being chapter two hundred and thirty-one of Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large
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CHAP. 11.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, being chapter two hundred and thirty-one of Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large.January 20, 1914.[[S. 3484](/us/bill/63/s/3484).][[Public, No. 48](/us/pl/63/48).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Judicial Code.Removal of causes from State to district courts.Vol. 36, p. 1095, amended.
That the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, being chapter two hundred and thirty-one of Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, be amended by inserting at the conclusion of section twenty-eight, chapter three, of said Act, the following: " Damages in interstate transportation.Not removable unless over $3,000. *“And provided further*, That no suit brought in any State court of competent jurisdiction against a railroad company, or Other corporation, or person, engaged m and carrying on the business of a common Vol. 24, p. 386;
Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 35, p. 648; Vol. 36, p. 555.carrier, to recover damages for delay, loss of, or injury to property received for transportation by such common carrier under section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce, approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, April thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, and June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall be removed to any court of the United States where the matter in controversy does not exceed, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of $3,000.”" Approved, January 20, 1914.