John Shields, Appellant v. Isaac Thomas and Others
Decision Date | 01 December 1854 |
Parties | JOHN G. SHIELDS, APPELLANT, v. ISAAC THOMAS AND OTHERS |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
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Jones v. Mutual Fidelity Co.
...for the joint benefit of all the relators, and in which they have a common and undivided interest. As in the cases of Shields v. Thomas, 17 How. 3, 5 (15 L.Ed. 93), The Connemara, 103 U.S. 754 (26 L.Ed. 322), all the relators claim under one and the same title, to wit, the levy of a tax whi......
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Gibbs v. Buck
...and Author' members respectively.' 9 Cf. Troy Bank v. G. A. Whitehead & Co., 222 U.S. 39, 32 S.Ct. 9, 56 L.Ed. 81; Shields v. Thomas, 17 How. 3, 15 L.Ed. 93. 10 Scott v. Donald, 165 U.S. 107, 114, 17 S.Ct. 262, 264, 41 L.Ed. 648; cf. Hunt v. N.Y. Cotton Exchange, 205 U.S. 322, 334, 27 S.Ct.......
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Snyder v. Harris Gas Service Company v. Coburn
...in a single 'joint' right. E.g., Texas & Pacific R. Co. v. Gentry, 163 U.S. 353, 16 S.Ct. 1104, 41 L.Ed. 186 (1896); Shields v. Thomas, 17 How. 3, 15 L.Ed. 93 (1855). This general aggregation rule, and its much later application to class actions,9 rest entirely on judicial decisions, not on......
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Bass v. Rockefeller
...the adversary of the class has no interest in how the claim is to be distributed among the class members. E. g., Shields v. Thomas, 58 U.S. (17 How.) 3, 15 L.Ed. 93 (1854). The second test, the essential party test, allows aggregation of class claims when none of the class members could bri......
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DIVERSITY JURISDICTION AND THE COMMON-LAW SCOPE OF THE CIVIL ACTION.
...more accurate to view the case as one in which the plaintiff has a claim for $60,000 against each defendant." Id. (14.) Shields v. Thomas, 58 U.S. 3, 4-5 (1854) (holding that the amount in controversy "was the sum due to the representatives of the deceased collectively" because they "all cl......