DOWS & ANOTHER
v.
JOHNSON

U.S. | 1884-01-21
110 U.S. 223 Supreme Court of the United States (1884) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 28 L. Ed. 128 · 3 S. Ct. 640 · 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1683 · SCDB 1883-130
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Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief Justice Waite

Mr. Chief Justice Waite delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

We have no jurisdiction in this case. Tbe suit was brought by Dows & Co. to recover damages for tbe unlawful conversion of ten thousand bushels of corn, tbe value of which, according to tbe findings, did not exceed $6,000. With interest added to this sum from tbe date of the alleged conversion until tbe judgment, tbe most that could have been recovered, upon tbe special finding, was $6,360. A judgment was in fact rendered for $2,430. The matter in dispute in this court is tbe difference between these two sums, or only $3,930. In Hilton v. Dickinson, 108 U. S. 165, it was settled that our jurisdiction depends on the value of tbe matter in dispute here, and as that in the present case is less than $5,000, it follows that tbe suit must be dismissed ; and it is so ordered.

Dismissed.

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