Rodley v. Curry

Citations

• 120 Cal. 541
• 52 P. 999
• 1898 Cal. LEXIS 804

Syllabus

<p>Jurisdiction—Superior Court—Claim of Complaint.—In an action to recover the value of services, the jurisdiction of the superior court is determined by the claim made in the complaint, where there is no evidence of bad faith, for the fraudulent purpose of giving jurisdiction; and when the claim made in the complaint was sufficient to give jurisdiction to the superior court, an admitted deduction made by plaintiff’s counsel when the case was called for trial, on account of discovered errors in the account, reducing the plaintiff’s claim below three hundred dollars, though such admission was binding upon the plaintiff, could not affect the jurisdiction of the court to try the case; and it was error in the court to dismiss the case, upon such admission, for want of jurisdiction.</p>