Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Phillips

REEYES, District Judge.

The defendants have challenged the jurisdiction of this court upon the ground that the amount in controversy is below the jurisdictional limit. The suit is primarily one to quiet title to certain parcels of ground in the town of Henrietta, Ray county, Mo. The petition alleges “that the said parcels of land, as so described, now constitute, and at all the times hereinafter mentioned have constituted, parts of plaintiff’s right of way in and through the town of Henrietta, * * ~ and are now, and wore at all of the,times hereinafter mentioned, devoted to and necessary for…