Wheeler Bliss Manuf'g Co. v. Pickham

SEAMAN, District Judge.

The defendant moves for a new trial upon a question of jurisdiction, which was raised at the last moment before submitting the cause to the jury, but of which final consideration was reserved for this motion. The contention is that it appeared upon the trial that the suit did not “really and substantially involve a dispute or controversy” over an amount exceeding $2,000; that because the uncontradicted testimony limited the best possible recovery of the plaintiff to a sum less than that amount, and especially because it was so admitted by its counsel in his argument to…