Vance v. W. A. Vandercook Co.

Citations

• 170 U.S. 468
• 18 S. Ct. 645
• 42 L. Ed. 1111
• 1898 U.S. LEXIS 1558

Syllabus

<p>In determining from the face of a pleading whether the amount really in dispute is sufficient to confer jurisdiction upon a court of the United States, it is settled that if from the nature of the case as stated in the pleadings there could not legally be a judgment for an amount necessary to the jurisdiction, jurisdiction cannot attach even though the damages be laid in the declaration at a larger snip.</p> <p>The courts of South Carolina having held that in an action of trover conse- . quential damages are not recoverable, and the damage claimed by the plaintiff below, in this case, omitting the consequential damages, being le$s than the sum necessary to give the Circuit Court jurisdiction of it, it follows that, on the face of the complaint, that court was without jurisdiction over the action. ></p>