Capron v. Van Noorden

Capron v. Van Noorden
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 5, 1804
Full case name	Capron v. Van Noorden
Citations	6 U.S. 126 (more) 2 L. Ed. 229; 1804 U.S. LEXIS 253; 2 Cranch 126
Prior history	Error to the Circuit Court of North Carolina
Holding
A plaintiff is allowed to dismiss a case that he had lost at trial because of a lack of diversity jurisdiction, leaving the plaintiff free to bring the case again.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Marshall Associate Justices William Cushing · William Paterson Samuel Chase · Bushrod Washington Alfred Moore

Capron v. Van Noorden, 6 U.S. 126 (1804), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court allowed a plaintiff to dismiss a case that he had lost at trial because of a lack of diversity jurisdiction, leaving the plaintiff free to bring the case again.^[1]

References

1. Yeazell, S. C. (2008), Civil Procedure (Seventh ed.), New York: Aspen Publishers, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-7355-6925-6.

Further reading

• Friendly, Henry J. (1928), "The Historic Basis of Diversity Jurisdiction", Harvard Law Review, 41 (4): 483–510, doi:10.2307/1330049.