Torrence v. Shedd
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE -UNITED STATES EOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OE ILLINOIS. This was a bill in equity, filed August 29, 1881, in the superior court of Cook County in the- State of Illinois, by Joseph T. Torrence against Susan M. Shedd, John B. Brown and ninety others, for partition of a tract of- land in that county, to an undivided third of which the plaintiff claimed title under a deed, from Edward Sorin. Brown and twenty others were not served-with process.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE -UNITED STATES EOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OE ILLINOIS. This was a bill in equity, filed August 29, 1881, in the superior court of Cook County in the- State of Illinois, by Joseph T. Torrence against Susan M. Shedd, John B. Brown and ninety others, for partition of a tract of- land in that county, to an undivided third of which the plaintiff claimed title under a deed, from Edward Sorin. Brown and twenty others were not served-with process. Most of the other defendants appeared and answered, denying the plaintiff’s title, and claiming title in themselves to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The first question to be considered is whether the Circuit Court of the United States rightly exercised jurisdiction to hear and decide this case.
This question, depends upon the act of March 3,1875, c. 137, which was in force at the time of the removal into that court, and of the refusal to remand to the state court..
By section 2 of that act, as heretofore construed, by this court, whenever, in any suit of a civil nature in a state court, where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum or value of $500, “ there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different States, and which…
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