New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. Salter

The plaintiff is suing to recover a balance of freight charges it claims to be due upon certain shipments of coal from Pennsylvania to the defendant at Groton, Connecticut. While the amount claimed is made up by adding together the balances due on various shipments, no one of which, if separately made the subject-matter of an action, would be within the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas, the complaint states that amount as constituting one debt, and we must assume that, by agreement or custom, the parties treated the account as a continuing one, and the debt due at any one time as the…