Turner v. Southern Home Building & Loan Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. The appellee, the Southern Home Building & Loan Association, filed its bill in the circuit court on the 14th day of October, 1898, against the appellants, B. D. Turner and his wife, Emily R. Turner, and S. O. Paine, a feme sole, to recover an' indebtedness which was secured by a deed of trust executed by the appellants and C. F. Paine, and for foreclosure of the trust deed.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. The appellee, the Southern Home Building & Loan Association, filed its bill in the circuit court on the 14th day of October, 1898, against the appellants, B. D. Turner and his wife, Emily R. Turner, and S. O. Paine, a feme sole, to recover an' indebtedness which was secured by a deed of trust executed by the appellants and C. F. Paine, and for foreclosure of the trust deed. The material allegations of the bill are the following: “(2) Thereupon your orator complains and says that, to wit, on the 2d day of…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxey, District Judge
The first point to be considered is the error assigned which challenges the jurisdiction of the circuit court on the ground that the amount in dispute does not exceed, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum of $2,000. By the act of August 18, 1888, it is provided “that the circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, * * * in which there shall be a controversy between citizens of different: states, in which the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest…
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