Legal Opinion
Walton Hardin v. James L. McAvoy and Knox Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 10, 1955No. 15012_1PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
What and all that is for decision here is whether the district court erred in dismissing plaintiff’s suit for want of jurisdiction on the ground that both plaintiff and defendants were citizens of Georgia.
The question comes to us in this way. On July 28, 1953, plaintiff below, appellant here, alleging himself to be a citizen of Florida, brought this suit for conversion of timber of the value of $16,400.
On August 28th the defendants filed their answer admitting in it that the amount in controversy was in excess of the required jurisdictional amount, but denying…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Land v. DollarSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Williams v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Gilbert v. DavidSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Williamson v. OsentonSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
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3Cited by22 opinions
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