Union Bank of Chicago v. Kansas City Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OE MISSOURI. This was a petition, in the nature of a bill in equity, filed in a court of the State of Missouri by citizens and corporations-of other States, judgment creditors (each of them in the sum. of less than $2500) in behalf, of all the creditors of James B. Melone, of Macon in the State of Missouri, Richard A. Melone and Charles H. Benedict, of Kansas City in that State, and- all three…
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OE MISSOURI. This was a petition, in the nature of a bill in equity, filed in a court of the State of Missouri by citizens and corporations-of other States, judgment creditors (each of them in the sum. of less than $2500) in behalf, of all the creditors of James B. Melone, of Macon in the State of Missouri, Richard A. Melone and Charles H. Benedict, of Kansas City in that State, and- all three citizens of Missouri, and doing business át Kansas City as partners, under the name of Benedict, Melone & Co., against those…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The claim of each plaintiff being for less than-$5000, and the amount in dispute, therefore, insufficient to give this court jurisdiction of the whole case, our jurisdiction is confined to. answering’ the questions of law presented by the certificate of division of’ opinion between the judges before whom the case was heard in the Circuit Court. Rev. Stat. §§ 650, 652, 69á; Act of February 16, 1875, c. 77, § 3, 18 Stat. 316; Dow v. Johnson, 100 U. S. 158; United States v. Ambrose, 108 U. S. 336; Jewell v. Knight, 123 U. S. 426.
The determination of these questions is governed by the law of…
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