Hankey v. Employer's Casualty Co.

The court sustained the defendants' plea that it appears upon the face of plaintiff's petition that, in so far as said petition exhibited a cause of action which was legally sufficient, the amount involved in plaintiff's cause of action was below the jurisdiction of the district court, and dismissed plaintiff's suit for want of jurisdiction.

The defendants other than the insurance company were alleged by plaintiff to be representatives of said company. It would serve no useful purpose, in passing upon the question of whether or not plaintiff's petition asserted a cause of action within the…