Smith Middlings Purifier Co. v. McGroarty
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FEOM THE CIRCUIT OOUBT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. This was a bill in equity, filed November 4, ,1885, by a corporation of Michigan against the Simpson and- Gault Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Ohio, Sayler, a citizen of Ohio and assignee of that company, under the laws of Ohio, McGroarty, Simpson, Gault and Fitch, also citizens of Ohio, and Charles, a citizen of New York.
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APPEAL FEOM THE CIRCUIT OOUBT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. This was a bill in equity, filed November 4, ,1885, by a corporation of Michigan against the Simpson and- Gault Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Ohio, Sayler, a citizen of Ohio and assignee of that company, under the laws of Ohio, McGroarty, Simpson, Gault and Fitch, also citizens of Ohio, and Charles, a citizen of New York. The bill alleged that the, defendant company, on May 25, .1885, by a deed of assignment filed in the probate court of Hamilton County in the State of Ohio, granted and assigned…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The claim of the plaintiff company, being for less than $5000, is insufficient to give this court jurisdiction, and the appeal must therefore be dismissed as to that company. Stewart v. Dunham, 115 U. S. 61; Gibson v. Shufeldt, 122 U. S. 27.
But the claim of W. & F. Livingston, citizens of New York, who by leave of -the Circuit Court and amendment of the bill were joined as plaintiffs, is more than $10,000, which is sufficient to. give this cburt jurisdiction of the appeal, so far as concerns their claim.; and Charles, also a citizen of New York, who was originally joined as defendant, not…
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