Woodside v. Beckham

Citations

• 216 U.S. 117
• 30 S. Ct. 367
• 54 L. Ed. 408
• 1910 U.S. LEXIS 1877

Syllabus

<p>Where a plaintiff sues as assignee of several claims, but is not in fact the owner of all the claims sued upon, and none of the claims is sufficient in amount to confer jurisdiction on the Federal court, that court has no jurisdiction and should dismiss the case for that ' reason although the assigned claims may in the aggregate exceed the jurisdictional amount.</p>