JOHN H. BENNETT, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. SAMUEL F. BUTTERWORTH. JANUARY TERM, 1850. Where a plaintiff in the court below filed a petition for the recovery from the defendant of four slaves, whose value he alleged to be $2,700, and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff “for $1,200, the value of the negro […]
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49 U.S. 124
49 U.S. 124 49 U.S. 124 8 How. 124 12 L.Ed. 1013 JOHN H. BENNETT, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR,v.SAMUEL F. BUTTERWORTH. January Term, 1850 A motion was made to dismiss it for want of jurisdiction, because the sum or matter in controversy was not of the value of two thousand dollars. The motion to dismiss was […]