Amman v. Sur-Wa Stores, Inc.
This text of 157 So. 782 (Amman v. Sur-Wa Stores, Inc.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Louisiana Court of Appeal primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Plaintiff instituted this suit for a monied judgment in the amount of $150.
Defendant, in answer, admitted it owed .plaintiff the sum of $95.80'.
Judgment was rendered below for the amount sued for, and defendant has perfected an appeal to this court.
Appellee has filed in this court a plea to the jurisdiction ratione materise. It is certain *783 from the pleadings in this ease that the amount in dispute at the time of the trial below was less than $100, and was not a sufficient amount to give this court jurisdiction ratione materise. Louisiana Constitution of 1921, art. 7, § 29; West Monroe Hardware & Furniture Co. v. Munholland, 18 La. App. 255, 138 So. 195.
The plea to the jurisdiction ratione mate-rise is therefore sustained, and the appeal dismissed at appellant’s cost.
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