Garneau v. Port Blakely Mill Co.

Citations

• 20 Wash. 97
• 54 P. 771
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 472

Syllabus

<p>APPEAL — AMOUNT IN CONTROVERSY.</p> <p>Under art. 4, § 4, of the constitution, prohibiting appellate jurisdiction in actions for the recovery of money, where the amount in controversy is less than $200, the consolidation of a number of actions by different plaintiffs against the same defendant, the amounts involved in each case being less than $200, will not invest the supieme court with jurisdiction of an appeal from the judgments rendered, although their aggregate sum is largely in excess of $200, where each plaintiff had a distinct and separate cause of action, and could not recover unless he showed that he was individually entitled to a judgment.</p>