Peysert v. United States

There is a separate cause of action in each of the nineteen hundred plaintiffs whose names appear in the petition or in the legal representatives of such of them as are dead. The misjoinder of persons whose demands, taken together, make an aggregate of something over two and one-half millions of dollars is apparent from the petition when we consider that the amounts are based on separate demands having no direct relation to the rights of the others; that they are for different sums which originally accrued at different dates and in different post-offices throughout the country, if they…