Guarantee Co. of North Dakota v. Hanway
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of North Dakota. This is an action at law for damages in the sum of $4,000 for the wrongful sale of a pledge.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of North Dakota. This is an action at law for damages in the sum of $4,000 for the wrongful sale of a pledge. It was commenced in August, 1897, in one of the courts of the state of North Dakota: and the original complaint counted upon a personal liability of, and prayed for a personal judgment against, Joshua A. Hanway, who was described in the title of the action as stockholders’ agent of the National Bank of North Dakota, at Fargo, N. D. On April 16, 1898, the plaintiff, the Guarantee Company of North Dakota, a corporation,…
1Opinion of the Court
■SANBORN, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The first objection to the judgment here is that this case was not removable to the federal court, and that the United States circuit court had no jurisdiction to hear or decide it. But the United States circuit courts have jurisdiction “of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the constitution or laws of the United States,” and every suit of that character may be removed from a state to…
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