Doggett v. Hunt

McDUFFIE, District Judge.

This cause is before the court on plaintiffs’ motion to remand and oral motion to strike affidavit relative to the amount in controversy, which affidavit was not filed by defendant until some two months after the removal petition was filed. Also before the court is defendant’s oral motion for leave to file an explanatory statement concerning the nature of the matter in controversy, on which the requisite jurisdictional amount depends.

As Judge Sanborn said in Enger v. Northern Finance Corporation, D.C., 31 F.2d 136, 138 (a case cited by plaintiffs): “An investigation…