Niagara Fire Insurance Company, Great American Insurance Company and Fireman's Fund Insurance Company v. Dyess Furniture Co., Inc.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The sole question argued in the district court or in this Court concerns the aggregation of claims to make the jurisdictional amount. Diversity of citizenship has not been questioned. The plaintiffs in the district court were two insurance companies incorporated under the laws of New York, with their principal places of business in the City of New York, and a third insurance company incorporated under the laws of California with its principal place of business in San Francisco, California. The defendants were five corporations, three organized under the laws of Alabama,…