Legal Opinion
Thomson v. Gaskill
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 2, 1942No. 139PublishedCited by 508 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Frankfurter
The question for decision is whether the record shows an essential requisite of the jurisdiction of the District Court, namely, that the “matter in controversy exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of $3,000.” Judicial Code, § 24 (1), 28 U. S. C. § 41 (1). There were other questions which, in the view we take of the case, need not be stated.
Respondents, forty-one conductors and brakemen employed by the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, brought suit against the railroad and one Kimball, an employee of the road, in the United States District Court for the District of…
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