Sterl v. Sears

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the amount in controversy was met where “[i]t is clear that what the defendant [tenant farmer] has at stake and stands to lose in this suit” exceeds the jurisdictional minimum for federal court
• concluding that the “mere rental value of the land is not at stake” when the plaintiff seeks to evict a tenant because the plaintiff would be entitled to the rent due under the lease even if he lost
• concluding that the “mere rental value of the land is not at stake” when the plaintiff seeks to evict a tenant because the plaintiff would be entitled to the rent due under the lease even if he lost

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).