Case ID: f_188/html/0544-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "COXE, Circuit Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

KAUFMAN v. I. RHEINSTROM SONS CO.
    (Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
    January 4, 1911.)
    Removal of Causes (§ 72) — Federal Courts — Jurisdiction—Amount in Controversy.
    Under the federal statute authorizing removal of a case involving an amount which exceeds $2,000, a suit involving exactly $2,000 is not removable.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Removal of Causes, Dec. Dig. § 72.]
    Action by Henry F. Kaufman against I. Rheinstrom Sons Company.
    Motion to remand. Granted.
    Nathan G. Goldberger, for plaintiff.
    Harry M. Lewy, for defendant.
    
      
      For other oases see same topic & § number in Deo. & Am. Digs. 1907 to 'date, & Rep’r Indexes
    
   COXE, Circuit Judge.

The question- here involved is an exceedingly simple one. The federal statute provides that a suit may be removed to this court when the amount involved exceeds $2,000. The amount here involved is exactly $2,000. Such a suit cannot be removed to this court for the obvious reason that the amount does not exceed (is not more than) $2,000. To assert that $2,000 is more than $2,000 is an absurdity.

The motion to remand is granted.