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· 3/30/1885

Evans v. Bailey

Citations

  • 2 Cal. Unrep. 457
  • 6 P. 424

Syllabus

<p>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.</p>

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