 | John Gaylord Wells - Law - 1875 - 628 pages
...have 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 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... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 856 pages
...sum or value of $500, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, 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 ; . . . but that " no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 860 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Barton - Court rules - 1877 - 280 pages
...dispute, exclusive 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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - Admiralty - 1877 - 684 pages
...five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiff or petitioners, 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. And the Supreme Court, as earl)' as 1806, in the case of Strawbtidge v. Curtis and others, 3... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 748 pages
...writs at common law where the United States are plaintiffs ; the same to the circuit courts, where the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State, where an alien is a party, &c. Here, no distinction is made between those branches of jurisdiction... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Executions (Law) - 1877 - 390 pages
...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... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...are chosen to manage its affairs, is a suit, so far as jurisdiction is concerned, between citizens of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State. The corporators, as individuals, are not defendants in the suit, but they are parties having... | |
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States are plaintiffs, or petitioners; 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. 
