THOMAS F. MURPHY, District Judge.
During trial to a jury in which plaintiff was ultimately awarded a verdict of $14,500 the court, on its own motion, raised the question of a possible lack of the required jurisdictional amount. Briefs by both sides were submitted.
The gravamen of plaintiff's diversity suit was a bad faith refusal by defendant to settle a claim against him within the limits of plaintiff's policy, as a consequence of which a judgment was entered...
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