Prentice v. Hancock
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Motion to remit appeal to the Superior Court, No. 200, January term, 1902. The motion was based upon the following petition: The petition of Kate D. Prentice respectfully represents : That she is the plaintiff in the above case, which is a proceeding in equity for an accounting by the defendant of moneys collected and received by him for her; that said case has been so proceeded upon that a final decree was entered in favor of your petitioner and against said appellant in…
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Motion to remit appeal to the Superior Court, No. 200, January term, 1902. The motion was based upon the following petition: The petition of Kate D. Prentice respectfully represents : That she is the plaintiff in the above case, which is a proceeding in equity for an accounting by the defendant of moneys collected and received by him for her; that said case has been so proceeded upon that a final decree was entered in favor of your petitioner and against said appellant in the sum of §572.80, with interest from January 27, 1899, as will more fully appear by the certified copy of said decree…
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Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
This motion involves a question of jurisdiction which it is desirable to have settled, and we therefore have advanced it to the present term.
The essential facts are that appellant filed an account as agent or trustee showing a balance due him exceeding $1,500, but the court disallowed credits and decreed a balance of $500 against him. He claims that the difference, exceeding $2,000, *131is tbe amount really in controversy. The appellee claims that the amount is fixed, for the purposes of jurisdiction, by the amount of the decree.
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