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· 12/30/1947

City of Chicago v. Murray

Citations

  • 333 Ill. App. 233
  • 77 N.E.2d 452
  • 1947 Ill. App. LEXIS 388

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  • federal judiciary has been \too timid\ in eliminating the \plethora of cases which do not belong in federal courts\
  • test for determining if the plaintiff has claimed the necessary jurisdictional amount in “good faith” is that it must appear to a legal certainty that the claim is really for less than the jurisdictional amount to justify dismissal
  • affirming dismissal based on information adduced during pretrial proceedings

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