...defendant." Section 24 of the Judicial Code (Comp. St. § 991) provides: "The District Courts shall have original Jurisdiction • • * of all suits...controversy exceeds exclusive of interest and costs, thfi sum or value of three thousand dollars, and (a) arises under the Constitution or laws of the United...

...Judicial Code. The District Courts are, by section 24 of the Judicial Code (Comp. St. 1916, § 991), given jurisdiction of all suits of a civil nature at common...in equity where the matter in controversy exceeds $3,000 and is between citizens of different states. Section 51 (Comp. St. 1916, § 1033) provides that...

...by the act of March 3, 1887, is very different. This act recites that the circuit court shall have jurisdiction of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, ''where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising...

...the circuit courts of the United States, without reference to the citizenship of the parties, with original jurisdiction of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeded a prescribed sum, and the suit was one "arising under the Constitution or laws of...

...Circuit Courts of the United States shall ha've cognizance, among other things, of "all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity" where the matter in controversy exceeds the sum of $500, and "arises under the Constitution or laws of the United States." The language of...

...to sue, or between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants from different States; or, where the matter in controversy exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of three thousand dollars, and (a) arises under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties...

...controversy between your petitioner and the plaintiff, and that the matter in dispute in said separable controversy exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of $2,000, and the same can be fully determined without the presence In the case of the said Kotheimer....

...that : "The District Courts shall have original Jurisdiction of all suits of a civil nature • * * where the matter in controversy exceeds, exclusive of. interest and costs, the sum or value of three thousand dollars, and arises under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties...

...subjects therein defined in the following order: It recites first that the circuit court shall have jurisdiction of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity " where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of $500;" then follow specifications of the subject...

...statute, I conclude that no such jurisdiction was conferred. The act of September 24, 1787, conferred jurisdiction "of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, exceeds the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and an alien is a party,...