Jurisdictional amount
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From 239 U.S. 121 - Glenwood Light Water Company v. Mutual Light Heat & Power Company · 1915Most cited · 366 citing opinions
The rule applicable generally to suits for injunction to restrain a nuisance, a continuing trespass, or the like, viz., that the jurisdictional amount is to be tested by the value of the object to be gained by complainant.