Meeks v. Adams Louisiana Co.

Duckwoktii, Justice.

1. A suit to cancel an oil lease as constituting a cloud upon the title of the petitioner’s lands is such a suit as may be removed to the Federal court, where the requisite diversity of citizenship is present and the amount in controversy exceeds $3,000 in value. 28 U. S. C. A. § 41.

2. An averment in a petition for removal that the value of the lands exceeded the jurisdictional amount is insufficient to sustain the jurisdiction of the Federal court, where it appears that the entire value of the lands was not put in controversy by the suit, but that only a mineral lease…