Question juridique clé
Whether the Federal Court had jurisdiction when three separate bill-of-exchange claims were joined and each claim individually stayed below CHF 3,000.
Solution extraite
Federal jurisdiction was lacking because the joined claims were independent and their values could not be aggregated for the statutory amount in controversy.
Motifs extraits
Each bill created a separate, self-standing claim arising from an independent legal transaction. In objective joinder, only claims individually reaching the statutory threshold may be brought further; the relevant federal civil procedure rule was applied analogically to fill the gap in the organisation statute.