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REEVES v. YALE TRANSPORT CORPORATION

No. 1897.

128 A.2d 792 (1957)

Claude REEVES, Appellant, v. YALE TRANSPORT CORPORATION, a Corporation, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 24, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles B. Sullivan, Jr., and James F. Bird, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

William J. Donnelly, Jr., Washington, D.C., with whom Richard W. Galiher and William E. Stewart, Jr., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant filed a complaint containing five counts. The first four counts charged appellee with four separate assaults and batteries, and the fifth count charged appellee with slander. Each count claimed damages of $3,000, a total of $15,000. At pretrial the complaint was dismissed on the ground it sought damages in excess of the jurisdictional limitation of the trial court.

The trial court's jurisdiction of civil actions for damages...

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