Case ID: mo-app_57/html/0219-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Bond, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Dominick Dowd, Plaintiff in Error, v. Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Defendant in Error.
    St. Louis Court of Appeals,
    March 22, 1894.
    Jurisdiction, Appellate: amount involved. If a plaintiff in an action for damages for personal injuries appeals from a judgment in his favor, the amount involved, for the purpose of determining the jurisdiction of the appeal, is the- difference between the amount sued for and that recovered.
    
      Error to the'St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Jacob Klein, Judge.
    Transferred to supreme court.
    
      Chas T. Nolan and Virgil Rule for plaintiff in error.
    
      A. & J. F. Lee for defendant in error.
   Bond, J.

— This action is for $10,000 as damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff had a trial and verdict in the circuit court for $100, from which he has sued out a writ of error to this court. As this writ of error was sued out by the plaintiff, the amount in dispute is the difference between the amount recovered, to wit, $100, and the amount sued for, to wit, $10,000, or $9,900; which sum is beyond the pecuniary limit of the jurisdiction of this court.

The clerk of this court is therefore directed to forward the transcript of this cause to the supreme court with a copy of this order of transfer. R. S. 1889, sec. 3300; Stevens v. Crane, 44 Mo. App. 275.

All the judges concur.