Dennis v. Superior Court
California Supreme Court
Application for writ of prohibition against the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. The nature of the case appears in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The Court.
We think that the personal liability of a stockholder of a corporation for his proportion of the *549indebtedness of the corporation is an obligation arising upon contract, within the meaning of-section 112 of the Code of Civil Procedure, giving original jurisdiction to a justice’s court in actions arising upon contract for the recovery of money, when the amount claimed is less than three hundred dollars.
The court of appeals of Maryland had before it the question of the nature of such a liability upon the part of a stockholder, in Norris v. Wrenschall, 34 Md. 492, and in that ease it…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Norris v. WrenschallCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1871
3Cited by11 opinions
- County of San Luis Obispo v. GageCalifornia Supreme Court · 1903
- Kennedy v. California Savings BankCalifornia Supreme Court · 1892
- Whittier v. VisscherCalifornia Supreme Court · 1922
- Miller & Lux, Inc. v. KatzCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1909
- Cook v. Justice's CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1936
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