Leonard v. Superior Court

Opinion

ROBIE, J. —

This case involves how a limited civil case (here a cross-complaint) gets reclassified as an unlimited civil case.

We hold that where petitioner Kathleen Leonard filed, through counsel, an amended cross-complaint that added a cross-defendant and added causes of action that increased the amount in controversy to over $25,000 and tried' twice to pay the court clerk the reclassification fee, the trial court was required to reclassify the case.

Here, however, the trial court refused to reclassify the case and went on to deny Leonard’s later-filed motion for reclassification, a…