Case Name: Minor v. Goodall
Court: Court of Appeals of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1803-05-16
Citations: 3 Call 393
Docket Number: 
Parties: Minor v. Goodall.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 550–550

Head Matter:
Minor v. Goodall.
[Monday, May 16, 1803.]
Appellate Court — Jurisdiction—“Amount in Controversy. ” — If tlie matter in dispute between tb e parties, exceed 100 dollars, this Court has jurisdiction.
Warden for the appellee.
Moved to dismiss the appeal, because, the sum decreed was under a hundred dollars, and therefore, the cause below the jurisdiction of the Court.
Call, contra.
Although the decree is for less, yet the matters in dispute between the parties amounted to much more; and, therefore, as the party has a right to the opinion of this Court, whether the Chancellor decided rightly upon the subjects of controversy, the appeal was properly allowed, and this Court has jurisdiction.
Cur. adv. vult.
Appellate Court — Jurisdiction—“Amount in Controversy.” — The principal case is cited in Rymer v. Hawkins, 18 W. Va. 316, for the proposition that, if the sum decreed to be paid to a plaintiff in chancery be less than the amount requisite to give jurisdiction to the court of appeals, but the matter in controversy in the suit be equal thereto, the court may take jurisdiction of an appeal from that decree by the complainant. The principal case is cited in Marion Machine Works v. Craig, 18 W. Va. 562.
See generally, monographic note on “Appeals.”

Opinion:
EYONS, Judge.
Delivered the resolution of the Court, that, although the decree was for less than 100 dollars, yet, as the matters in dispute exceeded that sum, the Court had jurisdiction.
The motion was therefore overruled; and, at a subsequent term, the decree was reversed.