PALEY v. COCA COLA COMPANY

Docket No. 11299.

39 Mich. App. 379 (1972)

197 N.W.2d 478

PALEY v. COCA COLA COMPANY

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 23, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Mintz (Melvin M. Belli and Robert L. Lieff, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein & Van Zile (by George E. Brand, Jr., and Richard E. Rassel), for defendant Coca Cola Company.

Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg (by Nathan B. Goodnow, Robert G. Cutler, and Anthony J. Sapienza), for defendant Glendinning Companies, Inc.

Before: LEVIN, P.J., and DANHOF and O'HARA, JJ.


Leave to appeal granted, 387 Mich. 797.

O'HARA, J.

We write to a single, narrow and precise issue. In question form it is: whether or not multiple plaintiffs in a claimed class action may aggregate their individual and separate claims in order to satisfy the minimum jurisdictional amount necessary to maintain an original action in the circuit court?

The trial court held they may not. This is the only question he passed upon, and this is the only one...

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