Supreme Court of the United States, 1876

Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Rogers

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 15, 1876 · Waite

93 U.S. 565 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Mr. Montgomery Blair ion: the defendant in error,, Mr. Gr. P. Lowrey and Mr. J. Hubley Ashton, contra.

Cases that cite this one

3 later published cases cite this decision.

New York Elevated Railroad v. Fifth National Bank (Supreme Court of the United States 1886)
O'Reilly v. Edrington (Supreme Court of the United States 1878)
Western Union Telegraph Company v. Rogers (Supreme Court of the United States 1877)

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Opinion of the Court

Mr. Chief Justice Waite

delivered the opinion of the court.

Béfore the act of Feb. 16,1875 (18 Stat. 316), increasing the sum or valúe-of the 'matter in dispute, necessary to give this court jurisdiction, from $2,000 to $5,000, after May 1,1875, it was held that we had no jurisdiction-in cases where the matter in dispute "was $2,000, and no more, and that in determining the jurisdictional amount “neither interest on the judgment *567nor costs of suit can enter into the computation.” Walker v. United States, 4 Wall. 164; Knapp v. Banks, 2 How. 73. The act of 1875 simply increases the jurisdictional amount. No other change is made in the old law. The judgment in this case was rendered May 8, 1875, for $5,000 and no more, except costs. It follows that, according to the practice established under the old law, this writ must' be

Dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

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