(110 U. S. 223)

Dows and others v. JOHNSON.

(January 21, 1884.)

JURISDICTION OF SUPREME COURT-MATTER IN DISPUTE.

Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa.

H. S. Monroe, for plaintiffs in error.

Sam. M. Chapman and W. F. Sapp, for defendant in error.

WAITE, C. J. We have no jurisdiction in this case. The suit was brought by Dows & Co. to recover damages for the unlawful conversion of 10,000 bushels of corn, the value of which, according to the findings, did not exceed $6,000. With interest added to this sum from the date of the alleged conversion until the judgment, the most that could have been recovered, upon the special finding, was $6,360. A judgment was in fact rendered for $2,430. The matter in dispute in this court is the difference between these two sums, or only $3,930. In Hilton v. Dickinson, 108 U. S., [S. C. 2 SUP. CT. REP. 424,] it was settled that our jurisdiction depends on the value of the matter in dispute here, and as that in the present case is less than $5,000, it follows that the suit must be dismissed; and it is so ordered dismissed.

(110 U. S. 224)

FIRST NAT. BANK OF OMAHA v. REDIOK.

(January 21, 1884.)

DISMISSAL-MOTION.

In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. On motion to dismiss.

J. M. Woolworth, for plaintiff in error.

John I. Redick, for defendant in error.

WAITE, C. J. This motion is granted on the authority of Thompson v. Butler, 95 U. S. 694, and Alabama Gold Life Ins. Co. v. Nichols, ante, 120. Dismissed.

END OF VOLUME 3.