Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Inc. v. Kappa Sigma Fraternity

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in a declaratory judgment suit, the object of the litigation controls the statute of limitations rather than the litigation’s form
• suggesting that a declaratory judgment challenging corporate amendments is like a breach of written contract claim
• assuming that a breach-of-fiduciary-duty claim in 1974 would have been governed by the then-five-year limitations provision in Code § 8-24, the statutory predecessor of Code § 8.01-248
• applying the two-year statute of limitations to breaches of fiduciary duty
• “Under this doctrine, . . . the general words will not be construed to include matters within their broadest scope[.]”
• “If we consider the [plaintiff’s declaratory relief] claim challenging the 1974 amendments as alleging breach of a contract . . . either claim is barred by [the former statute of limitations provision for breach of contract].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).