Question juridique clé
Whether the Federal Court had jurisdiction to review the complaint based on the alleged violation of a bill of exchange concordat.
Solution extraite
No jurisdiction existed because there was no federally approved interstate concordat; only a cantonal law was at issue, namely the application and interpretation of cantonal legislation.
Motifs extraits
The court found that the supposed federal concordat never existed as a ratified inter-cantonal agreement. Several cantons had merely drafted a bill of exchange ordinance, later adopted by some of them as cantonal law, and not uniformly. Since only cantonal law was being applied and interpreted, federal review was unavailable.