MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court dismissing a bill of complaint for want of jurisdiction; the jurisdiction having been invoked upon the ground that the suit was between citizens of different States, and that the matter in controversy exceeded the sum or value of three thousand dollars (Jud. Code, § 24; act of March 3, 1911, c. 231, 36 Stat. 1087, 1091). The bill, besides the requisite...
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