James Moore Wayne

“ Further, a decree from which an appeal may be taken must not only be final, but it must be one in which the matter in dipute, exclusive of costs, shall exceed the sum or value of two thousand dollars. The value of the subject-matter in controversy may be shown from the record, or by evidence aliunde, when it is disputed; and in this case the record discloses that to be such as would give the court jurisdiction ”

“ Hoag, our inquiry is, whether further action of the court in the nature of a decree would not be necessary to give to the defendant in error the benefit of the 'rents and profits received by the defendants in the court below, or which could or ought to have been received by them, or any of them, for any part of the premises,' which it had directed the defendants to surrender to the complainant ”