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CASES �AEGUED AND DETEEMINED ���m THB ���WinM f fafejgi (£ïïmi mA WMtt ëmxi^ ���Bybbz V. Hawkbtt and otbers. �{Œreuit Oourt, D. Oregon. December 13, 1880.) �l. Remotai. op Cause. — Under the second clause of section 2 of the act of March 3, 1875, any suit mentioned therein is removable whenever it involves a controversy wliolly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, upon the peti- tion of either one or more of the plaintifls or defendants actually interested in such controversy ; and It is immaterial whether such controversy is considered the main or principal one in the suit or not, or what other controversies or parties are incidentally or otherwiss involved in it. �In Equity. �Addison C. Gïbbs and B. F. Dowell, for plaintiff. �E. C. Bronnatigh, for non-resident defendants. �Deady, D. J. This suit was commenced on June 18, 1879, in the circuit court of the state for the county of Jackson, against the defendant Hawkett and nine others, and after a weary waste of wordy, confused, and iterated contention, covering 327 pages of closely-written legal cap, consisting, among other things, of the complaint, the supplemental and �v,5,no.l — 1 ����