Court Opinion

ID: 9448621
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:41:22.580105+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:30.371884
License: Public Domain

JOSEPH C. HUTCHESON, Jr., Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I would simply “reverse on the authority of the Horton cases.” As I read these cases, which are controlling here, it is quite plain that Judge Fisher’s holding in this case, that federal jurisdiction did not exist, is not supported by the holding in those cases, that the claim of the insurance carrier determines federal jurisdiction unless the amount in controversy stated by it is found to a legal certainty to be not stated in good faith. Judge Fisher’s finding in this case that, *572though the plaintiff sued in the state court for $12,827, he could, by limiting his counter-claim in federal court to $9,000, defeat the jurisdiction as asserted in the insurer's suit, in my opinion, goes directly counter to the holding of the Horton cases, and his judgment must be reversed, not affirmed.
I respectfully dissent from the opinion of the majority.