Legal Opinion
Kline v. Wright
District Court, D. Idaho
Decided July 16, 1930No. 680PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAVANAH, District Judge.
This case presents a controversy as to the ownership of certain mining claims in which plaintiffs and interveners assert to be entitled in accordance with their respective proportionate interests of an undivided 4Ái interest in plaintiffs and % interest in interveners.
At the outset the jurisdiction of the court is questioned by defendants, who urge that the mining claims in controversy do not exceed the value of $3,000 as required to confer jurisdiction.
The test is that the record must create a legal certainty of want of jurisdictional amount before the court would be…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Wetmore v. RymerSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Clay v. FieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- McDaniel v. TraylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Turner v. SawyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Bissell v. FossSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
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3Cited by3 opinions
- W. C. & A. N. Miller Development Co. v. Emig Properties Corp.District Court, District of Columbia · 1943
- Kline v. WrightDistrict Court, D. Idaho · 1931
- Pilgrim v. GrantDistrict Court, D. Alaska · 1936