Indiana. with a population of 3.427.796. has but 2. and. by a recent census estimate. the population of Missouri has decreased 200.000 since the census of 1940. In 1942 there were 2.758 cases filed in all the district courts of Missouri. in 1944 the number of cases filed in all these courts dropped to 2.122. making only 350 cases for each of these 6 judges to handle. Many of these cases were disposed of on pleas of guilty. many were naturalization cases. and but few of them were actually tried. Each lawyer knows that the jurisdiction of the Federal court is limited. It has bankruptcy cases. most of which are handled by the referees. It has naturalization cases which are pro forma. The only other cases it has. as a rule. are cases that grow out of the fact that the parties litigant are citizens of different States and the amount involved is more than $3.000.
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