ROGERS
v.
HENNEPIN COUNTY

U.S. | 1916-01-17
No. 411
239 U.S. 621 Supreme Court of the United States (1916) Caution
Also reported at: 60 L. Ed. 469 · 36 S. Ct. 217 · SCDB 1915-226 · 1916 U.S. LEXIS 1911
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Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice McReynolds

Mr. Justice McReynolds delivered the opinion of the court.

Three complainants, claiming to represent themselves and others like situated (numbering altogether 550), instituted this proceeding in equity against Hennepin County, Minnesota, and certain of its officers, in the District Court of the United States, seeking an injunction to prevent collection of a tax under forty dollars assessed against each of them, for the year 1913, on account of his membership in the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce. Defendants challenged the court’s power to entertain the cause upon the ground that the amount in controversy as to each complainant is the sum charged against him and demands against all cannot be aggregated in order to confer jurisdiction. The District Court sustained this objection upon authority of Wheless v. St. Louis, 180 U. S. 379, and dismissed the bill. It committed no error in so doing, and its judgment is

Affirmed.

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  • Lion Bonding & Sur. Co. v. Karatz, 262 U.S. 77 (U.S. 1923)
    …ead & Co., 222 U. S. 39, 41. In the case at bar, if several creditors of the company, each with a debt less than $3,000, had joined as plaintiffs, the demands could not have been aggregated in order to confer jurisdiction. Rogers v. Hennepin County, 239 U. S. 621; Scott v. Frazier, 253 U. S. 243. Nor can Karatz’s allegation that he sued on behalf of others similarly situated help him. Compare Title Guaranty Co. v. Allen, 240 U. S. 136; Eberhard v. Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co., 241 Fed. 353, 356.4 Since…
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    …e, KVOS, Inc. v. Associated Press, 299 U. S. 269, 279. Pope v. Blanton, 10 F. Supp. 15, 18, dismissed per curiam for lack of requisite jurisdictional amount in controversy, 299 U. S. 521; Gavica v. Donaugh, 93 F. 2d 173. Rogers v. Hennepin County, 239 U. S. 621. The complaint appears in the original records of this Court, No. 411, Oct. Term 1915. Cf., Robbins v. Western Auto Ins. Co., 4 F. 2d 249, cert. den., 268 U. S. 698; Woods v. Thompson, 14 F. 2d 951, and Illinois Bankers’ Life Assn. v. Parris, 21 F.…
  • Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc., 306 U.S. 583 (U.S. 1939)
    …controversy must be of the requisite amount to be within the jurisdiction of the district court, and that those amounts cannot be added together to satisfy jurisdictional 'requirements. Wheless v. St. Louis, 180 U. S. 379; Rogers v. Hennepin County, 239 U. S. 621; Pinel v. Pinel, 240 U. S. 594; Scott v. Frazier, 253 U. S. 243. The general allegation in the bill of complaint that “the amount involved in this litigation is in excess of” $3,000 and the finding of the court that “the amount involved in the withi…

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