Legal Opinion
Sparks v. England
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 25, 1940No. 11648PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The court below dismissed the complaint of appellant (plaintiff) upon the ground that it failed to disclose that an amount sufficient to confer jurisdiction was in controversy. From the resulting judgment, the plaintiff appeals.
In her complaint, after asserting diversity of citizenship and that the amount in controversy.exceeded $3,000, she alleged, in the first count, that she ówned a cemetery lot in Jasper County, Missouri, and that in December, 1937, or January, 1938, the defendants (appellees) unlawfully' entered upon her lot and dug up and carried away a tombstone…
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