Times Square Auto Supply Co. v. Kansas City — 263 U.S. 686

Majority

p. 686

No. 129.

Times Square Auto Supply Company, Inc. v. Kansas City, Missouri, et al.

Syllabus

Appeal from the District Court of the-United States for the Western District of Missouri.

Argued January 2, 1924.

Decided January 7, 1924.

Mr. Arthur Miller and Mr. Maurice H. Winger, for appellant, submitted. Mr. Samuel J. McCulloch was also on the brief. Mr. John B. Pew and Mr. Egbert F. Halstead, with whom Mr. Ilus M. Lee was on the brief, for appellees.

Reversed with costs; and remanded with directions to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, in that the bill of complaint did not show that the amount involved .was in excess of $3,000. Section 24, Judicial Code, paragraph “ First”; Vance v. Vandercook Co., No. 2, 170 U. S. 468 , 472; El Paso Water Co. v. El Paso, 152 U. S. 157 , 159; Colvin v. Jacksonville, 158 U. S. 456 , 459-460.

Cases cited

Vance v. W. A. Vandercook Co. 170 U. S. 468 SCOTUS 1898-05-09 p. 686
El Paso Water Co. v. El Paso 152 U. S. 157 SCOTUS 1894-03-05 p. 686
Colvin v. Jacksonville 158 U. S. 456 SCOTUS 1895-05-27 p. 686