Director General of Railroads v. Wilford

Citations

• 81 Fla. 430
• 88 So. 256

Syllabus

<p>1. The Circuit Court has no jurisdiction where the declaration in several counts claims damages for killing stock at different times and places when no one claim for stock killed at one time exceeds one hundred dollars, though the total aggregate of claims made in several counts of the declaration for several separate and independent killings, amount to more than one hundred dollars.</p> <p>2. The jurisdiction of the court is determined by the actual demand in good faith made or by the actual damages claimed to have been sustained.</p> <p>3. The amount of damages stated in the ad, damnum clause of a declaration does not determine the jurisdiction, of the court, when the real “demand or value of the property involved” otherwise dlearly appears, and the ad damnum is in excess of the real demand.</p>