| Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 634 pages
...different States. By the Judiciary Act of 1789, the United States Courts were given jurisdiction of suits between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State. The construction placed upon this Act was, that no suit could be brought where there were citizens of the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 764 pages
...exceeds, exclusive [ * 106 ] *of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and * * * the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought, and a citizen of another State." The questions presented for inquiry in this suit are, whether the subject of the suit is properly cognizable... | |
| Charles Sidney Whitman - Copyright - 1875 - 814 pages
...any such authority. Where the United States are plaintiffs, or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State, the Circuit Courts of the United States have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several... | |
| John Gaylord Wells - Law - 1875 - 628 pages
...jurisdiction of cases in which the amount of controversy, exclusive of costs, exceeds $500, and the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen nf another State. ALABAMA. — Justices' courts have jurisdiction in all civil cases where the amount... | |
| Law - 1876 - 860 pages
...prior to the act of 1839, an<l under the nth section of the Judiciary Act limiting the jurisdiction to suits between " a citizen of the state where the suit is brought and a citizen of another state," as construed, " the court could not take jurisdiction of the case ; for as between the plaintiffs... | |
| Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 856 pages
...the United States of a suit pending or afterwards brought in any State court involving a controversy between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State, thereby invests the Circuit Court with jurisdiction to pass upon and determine the controversy... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Executions (Law) - 1877 - 390 pages
...prior to the act of' 1839, and under the llth section of the Judiciary Act limiting the jurisdiction to suits between " a citizen of the state where the suit is brought and a citizen of another state,'' as construed, " the court could not take jurisdiction of the case ; for as between the plaintiffs... | |
| Charles Barton - Court rules - 1877 - 280 pages
...of costs, exceeds the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought and a citizen of another state': Provided, that no circuit court shall have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of... | |
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