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DAVIS v. UNIVERSAL CORPORATION

No. 1968.

133 A.2d 479 (1957)

Paul S. DAVIS, Appellant, v. The UNIVERSAL CORPORATION, a corporation, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided July 1, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greene Chandler Furman, Washington, D. C., with whom Paul S. Davis, Washington, D. C., appellant, pro se, was on the brief, for appellant.

George E. Monk, Washington, D. C., with whom Edmund L. Jones, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D. C., and Joseph M. Glickstein, Jacksonville, Fla., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

HOOD, Associate Judge.

The single question here is whether the trial court correctly ruled that the Municipal Court lacks jurisdiction over an action by a dissenting stockholder under Code 1951, § 29-240, even though the amount claimed is within the court's jurisdictional limitation of $3,000. The cited Code section authorizes a corporation, with approval of two-thirds of the stockholders, to sell all its property and assets, and gives a dissenting stockholder...

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