Campbell v. Read

At a subsequent day, the CHIEF JUSTICE announced briefly the court’s opinion, that independently of the record’s not showing a proper certificate, — this itself being a sufficient ground for dismissal, — the amount in controversy was insignificant, and that the court was satisfied, .on an inspection of the papers, that the allocatur was inadvertently *200 •sanctioned. There was, he said,, no principle involved of such extensive application as to bring the case within the act of Congress giving jurisdiction on a judge’s allocatur when the. amount in controversy is less than $1000. Notwithstanding the allocatur, therefore, the case was DISMISSED.