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SHELDON V. KEOKUK N. L. V. 00. 789 �offenoe is that the letter must have contained some one of the valuable things mentioned in section 5487, •which valuable thing (treasury notes here) shall have been taken ont of, or stolen from, the letter. The taking of the notes out of the letter was one of the incidents attending the offence of em- bezzlement, and was alleged by the pleader only as sueh. It ■was not necessary to such a purpose to allege an ownership of the two notes. The motion in arrest of judgment is denied. ���Shelbon and others ». Keokuk Northebn Line Packet Co. �and others. �(Cireuit Court, W. D. Wisconsin. , 1880.) �Removal ov Cause — 8evbbal Controvkestbs dî Same Suit — Act op Mabch 3, 1875. — Underthe second section of the act of March 3, 1875, (c. 137,) a suit may be removed from the state court into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district, when there are several controversies in the same suit that are properly severable in their chàr- acter, on the application of any one or more plaintiffs or defendants actually interested in any one of such controversies, and who may re- side in a state other than the one in which the other party to the con- troversy resides, although, in such suit, the court may thereby take along ■with it jurisdiction of a controversy between citizens of the same state. �BuNN, J. This action is commenced in the state court by the plaintiffs, who are residents of Wisconsin, against the Ke- okuk Northern Line Packet Company, a resident of Missouri, the Northwestern Union Packet Company, a resident of lowa, and Peyton S. Davidson, a resident of Wisconsin. The defendant, the Keokuk Northern Line Packet Company, ap- plies to have the case removed to this court under the second section of the act of cougress, of March 3, 1875, (chapter 137, Laws 1875,) which is as foUows : �"That any suit of a civil nature, at law or in equity, now pending, or hereafter brought, in any state court, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of |500, • * • in which there shall be a controversy ��� �