The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. v. American National Bank And Trust Company Of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he legal impossibility of recovery must be so certain as virtually to negative the plaintiff’s good faith in asserting the claim.”
• “[T]he legal impossibility of recovery must be so certain as virtually to negat[e] the plaintiff’s good faith in asserting the claim.”
• “A guarantor’s obligation must be ‘narrowly construed and cannot be extended by construction beyond the plain and explicit language of the contract.’” (quoting Key Bank v. Burns, 556 N.Y.S.2d 829, 830 (2d Dep’t 1990))
• “[A] party invoking the jurisdiction of the federal court has the burden of proving that it appears to a ‘reasonable probability’ that the claim is in excess of the statutory amount.” (quoting Tongkook Am., Inc. v. Shipton Sportswear Co., 14 F.3d 781, 784 (2d Cir. 1994))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).