Montgomery Ward, Inc. v. Davis

I cannot agree that the amount in controversy on this appeal is $3000 or more. Iowa rule of appellate procedure 3 requires that “no appeal shall be taken in any case, not originally tried as a small claim, where the amount in controversy, as shown by the pleadings, is less than three thousand dol-lars_” Iowa R.App.P. 3. The plaintiff’s petition sought only $1596.61. As we have previously held, the amount of a plaintiff’s claim may not be aggregated with a defendant’s counterclaim in an attempt to meet our jurisdictional amount requirement, if neither alone is sufficient to confer…