Marion F. McDonald v. C. Y. Patton, Sr., Trading and Doing Business as Patton's Gulf Service

How courts have described this case

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• noting that plaintiffs may secure federal jurisdiction even when “it is apparent on the face of the claim” that the claim to the requisite amount is subject to a “valid defense”
• “[I]f it appears to a legal certainty that the plaintiff cannot recover the jurisdictional amount, the case will be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.”
• “[I]f it appears to a legal certainty that the plaintiff cannot recover the jurisdictional amount, the case will be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.”
• “[I]f it appears to a legal certainty that the plaintiff cannot recover the jurisdictional amount, the case will be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).