Evans v. Bailey

California Supreme Court March 30, 1885

Evans v. Bailey, 2 Cal. Unrep. 457 (Cal. 1885)

6 P. 424

Opinion of the Court

By the COURT.

As the plaintiff in his complaint fixes the liability of each of the appellants at less than three hundred dollars, it follows that the superior court did not have jurisdiction of the action: Derby v. Stevens, 64 Cal. 287, 30 Pac. 820.

Judgment reversed, with directions to the court below to dismiss the action as to appellants.

Reference

Full Case Name: EVANS v. BAILEY
Status: Published
Syllabus: Superior Court—Jurisdiction in Actions Against Stockholders.— A superior court has no jurisdiction of an action to recover from each of several stockholders of a corporation his proportion of a debt contracted by the corporation, where the amount sued for is less than three hundred dollars, though the aggregate amount sought to be recovered from the several stockholders be more than three hundred dollars.