Henson v. Pascola Stave Co.

The appeal in this case was prosecuted to the Supreme Court because the amount in dispute, $5000, exclusive of costs, exceeded the sum of $4500 and therefore the case was without the jurisdiction of the Courts of Appeals. In 1909 the jurisdictional amount in cases over which these courts might have jurisdiction was increased to $7500 exclusive of costs, and thereupon this case, not having been submitted in the Supreme Court was by it -certified and transferred to this court to be heard and determined by it. The case was thereafter transferred by this court to the Springfield Court of Appeals…