Stone v. Sargent
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover $25,000 under a special agreement. Writ dated August 17, 1877, and returnable at October term 1877 of the Superior Court. At June term 1878, the defendant having filed his answer, the case was referred by agreement of parties and rule of court to an auditor.
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Contract to recover $25,000 under a special agreement. Writ dated August 17, 1877, and returnable at October term 1877 of the Superior Court. At June term 1878, the defendant having filed his answer, the case was referred by agreement of parties and rule of court to an auditor. A hearing was had before the auditor, and his report was made and returned to the court, and was among the papers in the case, but no note of its having been filed appeared in the report or on the docket. At June term 1879 the case was upon the trial list. At October term 1879, and before any trial by the court or the…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
Among the provisions of former acts of Congress, concerning the removal of causes from the State courts to the Federal courts, which are substantially reenacted in the Revised Statutes of the United States, are those of the act of March 2, 1867, by which any suit commenced in any court of a State between a citizen of that State and a citizen of another State, in which the amount in dispute, exclusive of costs, exceeds the sum or value of five hundred dollars, may be removed for trial into the Circuit Court of the United States next to be holden for the district in which the suit is pending,…
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