180 Mass. 319 | Mass. | 1902
1. The assignments of these claims to the plaintiff, in each case, gave him the right to bring the action in his own name. St. 1897, c. 402, § 1. This right wras not abridged by the insertion in the assignment of a permission to bring suit in the name of the assignor.
2. In each case the aggregate damages demanded by the plaintiff on all the counts exceed in amount $1,000; this brings the ease within Pub. Sts. c. 150, § 5, defining the jurisdiction of this court in Norfolk County. There is no reason why a plaintiff should not secure the amount necessary to
Oases to be sent to an assessor to assess the damages.