Schacker v. Hartford Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
On opening this record, we find that the action below was assumpsit upon a policy of insurance for $1,400. There are two counts in the declaration, but they are both upon the same' cause of action; and although the damages, both in the writ and declaration, are laid at $3,000, it is apparent from the whole record that there could not be a recovery in •any event for -more than $1,400 and interest from July 14, 1873.
Our jurisdiction, when this writ issued, was limited in cases of this character to those in which the “matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, exceeds the sum or value of $2,000.”…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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