Supreme Court of the United States, 1865

Campbell v. Read

Campbell v. Read
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided January 23, 1865
69 U.S. 198; 17 L. Ed. 779; 2 Wall. 198; 1864 U.S. LEXIS 421 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Mr. Barnes, for the appellant,, Mr. Stone, contra. •

Campbell v. Read

Opinion

At a subsequent day, the

CHIEF JUSTICE

announced briefly the court’s opinion, that independently of the record’s not showing a proper certificate, — this itself being a sufficient ground for dismissal, — the amount in controversy was insignificant, and that the court was satisfied, .on an inspection of the papers, that the allocatur was inadvertently *200 •sanctioned. There was, he said,, no principle involved of such extensive application as to bring the case within the act of Congress giving jurisdiction on a judge’s allocatur when the. amount in controversy is less than $1000. Notwithstanding the allocatur, therefore, the case was

DISMISSED.

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