Kansas Pacific Railway Company, Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company v. Keith v. Clark. Kendig v. Dean 120 272 96 345 348 345 25 687 233 204 Memphis v. Brown . . 300 Memphis, United States v. 284 Memphis v. United States 293 Mimmack v. United States 426 Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company v. Kansas Pa cific Railway Company 491 Pettigrew v. United States Portsmouth Savings Bank, County of Warren v. Post, County of Warren v. Powder Company v. Burkhardt . Railroad Companies v. Gaines Roots, Hyndman v. . Rowan, United States v. Rubber-Coated Harness-Trimming Company v. Welling 7 Wade, Hotel Company v. . "Virginia Ehrman," The, and the "Agnese" Wallace, Hosmer v. . 575 Wood, Newcomb v. . Work v. Leathers Watkins, United States v. Welch v. Cook Welling, Rubber-Coated Harness-Trimming Company v. Winters, County of Bates v.. Wright, County of, Emigrant Company v. 219 541 REPORTS OF THE DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, OCTOBER TERM, 1877. TROY V. EVANS. 1. The amount of the judgment below against a defendant in an action for money is prima facie the measure of the jurisdiction of this court in his behalf. 2. This prima facie case continues until the contrary is shown; and, if jurisdiction is invoked because of the collateral effect a judgment may have in another action, it must appear that the judgment conclusively settles the rights of the parties in a matter actually in dispute, the sum or value of which exceeds $5,000, exclusive of interest and costs. MOTION to dismiss a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama. This is an action commenced Oct. 31, 1872, by Evans, Gardner, & Co., against the Mayor and Councilmen of Troy, a municipal corporation in Alabama. The declaration alleges that the defendant, on the 19th of February, 1869, pursuant to lawful authority, issued certain town bonds, each for $100, payable to bearer, with interest at eight per cent per annum from said date, in ten annual instalments, after the completion of the Mobile and Girard Railroad to said town, together with the accrued interest; that sixty-three of said bonds are the property of the plaintiffs; that said road was completed to the town of Troy June 9, 1870; and that three annual instalments of ten per cent each, amount |