Legal Opinion

Banking Association v. Insurance Association

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 2, 1880PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court, of the United States for the District of Louisiana. The'facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Chiee Justice Waite

delivered the opinion of the court.

■ From this record it appears affirmatively that the only dispute between the parties is as to the right of the insurance association to'withhold a transfer of stock until an indebtedness of a stockholder- to it for $2,074.-36 is paid. Such being the case, we have no jurisdiction of this .appeal. In Gray v. Blanchard (97 U. S. 564) we. held that'a writ of error must be dismissed when it’ appears from the record, taken as a whole, that .the amount actually in controversy between the’parties was not sufficient to give-us-jurisdiction.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Gray v. BlanchardSupreme Court of the United States · 1878

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Hilton v. DickinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  2. Bowman v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1885
  3. Home Life Ins. Co. v. SippCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1926
  4. American United Life Ins. v. FranklinCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1938
  5. Household Finance Corporation of Atlanta v. Charles B. JonesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963

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