Court Opinion

ID: 7194333
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 17:00:37.167339+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:16:16.693603
License: Public Domain

The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
A motion is made to dismiss this appeal for lack of jurisdiction thereof, because the amount in dispute does not exceed two thousand dollars.
We think the appeal has no place in our Court.
The action is to recover :
1st. Two lots of ground valued at..........................$1,000
2d. Rents and revenues thereof, valued at.................. 260
3d. Certain personal property or its value, yalued at........ 300
4th. Injury and waste of improvements, valued at........... 150
the whole amounting to......................................$1,710
To this is added a roving allegation that “ by said fraudulent and illegal possession of said property * * petitioners have been damaged in the full sum of five hundred dollars.”
Inasmuch as this allegation is supported by no specification of the nature of the pretended damage, and as every reasonable cause of in*505jury had been set forth in the previous particular claims, we must treat this last claim as merely fictitious and entitled to no consideration as forming part of the real matter in dispute, which is thus below the limit of our jurisdiction.
The appeal is, therefore, dismissed.