Robins et al v. Wood

Filing 40

ORDER consolidating this case with 3:17-cv-226-DPM and designating case 3:17-cv-226-DPM as the lead case. All future filings should be made in that case number. Signed by Judge D. P. Marshall Jr. on 8/30/2017. (thd)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS
JONESBORO DIVISION

CENTENNIAL BANK,
Guardian of the Estate of Mary
Moore Stiny

v.

PLAINTIFF

No. 3:17-cv-226-DPM

RENA WOOD, also known as
Rena Wood Powell

DEFENDANT

IN THE MATTER OF THE
GUARDIANSHIP OF MARY MOORE
STINY, an incapacitated person
No. 3:17-cv-227-DPM

ORDER
1. The Court concludes that it has subject matter jurisdiction under 28
U.S.C. § 1332(a) in both of these cases. The parties are diverse. More than
$75,000 is in controversy in the Centennial/Wood dispute about the First
National Bank of Lawrence County account. And adjudication of that dispute
will necessarily entail deciding who was, is, and should be trustee of the Stiny
family trust.

The defects in the removals are procedural rather than

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jurisdictional, and Centennial has waived them.
2. The Court consolidates these two cases and designates No. 3:17-cv226-DPM as the lead case. All future filings should be made in that case
number.
So Ordered.
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D .P. Marshall Jr.
United States District Judge
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