Barto v. Seattle & International Railway Co.

Citations

• 28 Wash. 179
• 68 P. 442
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 472

Syllabus

<p>APPEAL-AMOUNT IN CONTROVERSY-ACTION AT LAW-ENFORCEMENT OF PARTIAL ASSIGNMENT.</p> <p>The assignment of part of a claim for a .pecuniary demand being a legal assignment, enforcible at law under the provisions of our Code, which declare (Bal. Code, § 4835) that any assignee of choses in action for the payment of money may maintain an action in his own name, notwithstanding the assignor may have an interest in the things assigned, and which require all parties interested to be joined (Id. § 4833), and that where a party who should be a plaintiff refuses he may be made a defendant, no equitable feature is presented from the mere fact that an . assignee attempts to enforce the assignment of a part of a claim, and hence the supreme court cannot take jurisdiction of an appeal in such a case, where the amount in controversy is less than $200.</p>