Alabama Gold Life Insurance v. Nichols
Supreme Court of the United States
IN .ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. Motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
In this case a verdict was rendered against the .plaintiff in error for $6,610, and a judgment. entered thereon December 9th, 1819. In the verdict was included, for. damages $600, attorney’s fees $500, and interest $510, in all $1,610; The next day, December 10th, 1819, the defendants in error appeared in open court and “entered a remittitur” of these-amounts, “leaving the amount of said judgment to be for the amount of five thousand dollars and costs of suit.” Upon this being done a new judgment was entered “ that the plaintiffs have and recover from said defendant the sum of five thousand…
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