Champion v. Rakes

How courts have described this case

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• holding under predecessor statute with similar language “that the jurisdiction of the court is 4 determined by the amount sued for; thus, the amount of the judgment would play no part in determining whether the court had subject matter jurisdiction”
• “[A] judgment on a matter not within the [subject matter] jurisdiction of the court is void[.]”
• “[J]urisdiction of the subject matter is given only by law, and a judgment on a matter not within the jurisdiction of the court is void at all times.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).