Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the Federal Court had jurisdiction when three separate bill-of-exchange claims were joined and each claim individually stayed below CHF 3,000.
Decisione estratta
Federal jurisdiction was lacking because the joined claims were independent and their values could not be aggregated for the statutory amount in controversy.
Motivazione estratta
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.