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WESTERN UNION TEL. CO. v. ROGERS

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93 U.S. 565 (1877)

23 L.Ed. 977

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, v. ROGERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

January 15, 1877.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Montgomery Blair for the defendant in error.

Mr. G.P. Lowrey and Mr. J. Hubley Ashton, contra.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Before the act of Feb. 16, 1875 (18 Stat. 316), increasing the sum or value of the matter in dispute, necessary to give this court jurisdiction, from $2,000 to $5,000, after May 1, 1875, it was held that we had no jurisdiction in cases where the matter in dispute was $2,000, and no more, and that in determining the jurisdictional amount "neither interest on the judgment...

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