WELLS & Others v. WILKINS

116 U.S. 393, 6 S. Ct. 601, 29 L. Ed. 671, 1886 U.S. LEXIS 1772

• Court: Supreme Court of the United States
• Decided: January 11, 1886
• Docket: 657
• Status: Published

Opinion

Mr. Chief Justice Waite

delivered the opinion of the court. These are suits in ejectment, each for a separate and distinct. part of a lot in Pensacola. A judgment was rendered in each case1 for the recovery of the premises sued for in that case. Neither the pleadings nor the evidence found in the records show the value of the property, but on suing out the writs of error the plaintiffs in error in each case filed two affidavits to ' the effect that the value was more than $5000. ’ Since the cases were docketed here, however, the defendant in error has filed counter affidavits which prove beyond all doubt that this is a mistake, and that the value in every one of the cases is very much less than our jurisdictional limit.

The writs of error are consequently all dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

Goldstucker & Another v. Wilkins. Wells & Others v. Wilkins. Wells & Others v. Wilkins. Wells & Others v. Wilkins. Wells & Another v. Wilkins. All in error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida. These cases were all submitted at the same time, and by the same counsel, with Wells v. Wilkins reported above, and are, for the reasons given in the above opinion, all

Dismissed for want of jurisdiction.