Dows v. Johnson
DOWS & Another v. JOHNSON
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Me. 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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