Marshall Motor Co. v. Universal Credit Co.

This appeal presents the question whether the plaintiff, having previously submitted to a voluntary nonsuit in the U. S. District Court in an action wherein more than fifteen thousand dollars was claimed as penalty for usury in numerous independent transactions, has the right, thereafter, to institute in the State court four separate suits embracing the identical items set out in the original action, the sum demanded in each case being less than three thousand dollars. In other words, may the plaintiff, having submitted to nonsuit upon the cause of action originally stated, embracing many…