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        "text": "Clark, C. J.\nIt was error to refuse the motion of the defendants to remove the cause to the United States Circuit Court. The petition and bond were filed in apt time. The court finds as a fact that the controversy is wholly between citizens of different States and wholly determinable between them. The court further finds that plaintiff, in his complaint, asks damages in the amount of $2,000 and a permanent injunction against defendants, and that defendants claim in their-petition for removal that the granting of this injunction will deprive them of property to the amount, of $3,000 over and above the $2,000 claimed by plaintiff for damages accrued.' Upon these findings defendants were entitled to a removal of the cause.\nIn Corp. Com. v. R. R., 135 N. C., 81, the Court cites with approval R. R. v. McConnell (C. C.), 82 Fed., 85, which lays down the rule in equity cases as to removals: \u201cIt is the value of the whole object of the suit to complainant which determines the amount in controversy.\u201d In Ayers v. Watson., 113 U. S., 594 (a ease decided when, the jurisdictional amount was $500 instead of $2,000, as now), Justice Bradley, for the Court, says: \u201cThe plaintiff\u2019s petition demanded the recovery of the land and $500 damages. This was certainly a demand for more than $500, unless it can be supposed that the land itself was worth nothing at all, which will hardly be presumed. Sheriff v. Turner, 119 Fed., 231; R. R. v. Cunningham, 103 Fed., 708; Smith v. Bivins, 56 Fed., 352.\u201d\nIn the case at bar the plaintiff seeks $2,000 damages and a permanent injunction. Plaintiff states in his complaint that, unless defendant is restrained, plaintiff\u2019s two tracts of land \u201cwill be rendered wholly worthless.\u201d He claims $2,000 for damages already done. That is as far as he could go without making his cause removable. But he goes further, and asks the benefit of a permanent injunction to prevent his lands from becoming \u201cwholly worthless.\u201d If that relief is worth one penny, he has exceeded the jurisdictional amount, upon his own showing.\n\u201cWhere a bill in equity is filed to abate a nuisance or to set aside a deed, or for a decree giving other mandatory or preventive relief, it is the value of the property of which the defendant may be deprived by the decree sought which is the test of jurisdiction, and not the claim of plaintiff alone.\u201d Baltimore v. Postal Co., 62 Fed., 502; 18 Enc. PL and Pr., 270.\n\u201cWhere the object of a suit is to restrain the use of property by a party other than the owner, the right to use the property is the matter in dispute, and the value of such right determines the question of jurisdiction.\u201d Oleson v. R. R., 30 Fed., 81.\n\u201cThe sum or value of the matter in dispute which conditions the jurisdiction of a Federal court is the amount or value of that which the complainant seeks to recover, or the amount or value of that wdiich the defendant will lose if the complainant obtains the recovery he seeks.\u201d Cowell v. Water Co. (C. C. A.), 121 Fed., 53.\n\u2022 \u201cIt is conceded that the pecuniary value of the matter in dispute may be determined not only by the money judgment prayed, where such is the ease, but in some cases by the in- ' creased or diminished value of the property directly affected by the relief, or by the- pecuniary results to one of the parties immediately from the judgment.\u201d Smith v. Adams, 130 U. S., 174.\n\u201cWhere property itself, or its title, is in litigation, or some question per se affecting its enjoyment and possession, its value is the real matter in controversy, as distinguished from the claim of the contending parties.\u201d 1 Enc. PI. and Pr., 726.\n\u201cIn a suit in equity for an injunction, the value of the matter in dispute is that of the object of the bill, namely, the value to the complainant of the right for which he prays protection, or the value to defendant of the acts of which plaintiff prays prevention, together with the amount of damages .which plaintiff claims he has already sustained, and prays to have awarded to him.\u201d 34 Cyc., 1235; Scott v. Donald, 165 U. S., 107.\nThe appellants ask that we also pass upon the exception for granting the injunction. But upon filing in apt time a valid petition to remove, the jurisdiction of the State court terminates. The remedy of the appellant is by motion in the Federal court to dissolve the injunction.\nReversed.",
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    "head_matter": "J. M. HARBISON v. W. H. ALLEN et al.\n(Filed 27 May, 1910.)\nRemoval of Causes \u2014 Jurisdictional Amount \u2014 Damages\u2014Injunction\u2014 Further Procedure.\nUpon defendant\u2019s sufficient petition and bond, filed in apt time, to remove a cause from the State to the Federal court on the ground of diversity of citizenship, the court having found as a. fact that the cause was wholly between citizens of different States and therein wholly determinable, the amount is sufficient when damages are claimed in the sum of $2,000, and an injunction prayed which undoubtedly extends the amount beyond that sum, and alleged by defendant in his petition to be in excess of that specifically demanded; and the case being ordered removed, as prayed, all further proceedings must be had in the Federal court \u2014 exceptions to orders made in the lower court, and the like.\nAppeal by defendant from Justice, J., at the December Term, 1909, of BirRKE. .\nThe facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court.\nJ. F. Spainhour for plaintiff.\nAvery & Ervin for defendant."
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