Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Johnson

1. A cause of action involving an amount less than $3000 is not rendered subject to removal to the Federal court by an amendment increasing the amount sued for to a sum in excess of $3000 when the facts existing at the time of the filing of the suit would not have authorized its original filing in the Federal court. This was a suit for installments under a policy of insurance providing for monthly disability payments. The original suit was for less than $3000. An amendment which included installments accruing since the suit was filed increased the amount to more than $3000; whereupon…