Legal Opinion
McChesney v. Moore
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 25, 1951No. 1007PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLAGETT, Associate Judge.
The Municipal Court dismissed three separately stated counterclaims of defendant interposed in an action brought by plaintiff-landlord for rent and water charges. Apparently (although the record is indefinite on the subject) the first counterclaim over which the Municipal Court undoubtedly has jurisdiction was dismissed as being too indefinite and the other two counterclaims, each of which was within the $3,000 jurisdictional limit of the trial court but which in the aggregate exceeded such limit, apparently were dismissed as being beyond the jurisdiction of the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Phelps v. AbbottMichigan Supreme Court · 1898
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