PIONEER COAL CO. v. BUSH

Nos. 1605, 1574, 1571, 1566.

16 F.Supp. 117 (1936)

PIONEER COAL CO. v. BUSH et al., and three other cases.

District Court, E. D. Kentucky, at London.

September 8, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cleon K. Calvert, of Pineville, Ky., for plaintiffs Pioneer Coal Co. and Kentucky-Jellico Coal Co.

N. R. Patterson and Low & Bryant, all of Pineville, Ky., for plaintiffs Kentucky Cardinal Coal Corporation.

N. R. Patterson, of Pineville, Ky., for plaintiffs Barker-Straight Creek Coal Mining Co.

Golden & Lay, of Pineville, Ky., for defendants.


FORD, District Judge.

These are common-law actions of ejectment between citizens of different states.

In each of these cases the question for determination is whether the sum or value of the matter in controversy, as disclosed by the record, is sufficient to give this court jurisdiction under section 24 of the Judicial Code, as amended (28 U.S.C.A. § 41), which provides that the district courts of the United States shall have original jurisdiction of...

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