Case ID: so2d_66/html/0572-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PONDER, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

223 La. 624
    D’ASARO v. COTONIO.
    No. 40501.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    June 1, 1953.
    Sam Roccaforte, New Orleans, for de-féndant-appellant.
    Leo L. Dubourg, Arthur J. O’Keefe, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff:appellee.
   PONDER, Justice.

In this suit the dative testamentary executor seeks to recover from the former attorney of the succession the sum of $2,730, representing certain rents belonging to the succession, allegedly collected by him over a period of several years and not accounted for. The defendant admits in his answer that he has collected rents due the succession in the amount of $1,778 and reconvenes asking for judgment in the amount of $1,041.16 for services rendered and monies paid out by him for the succession.

The main demand controls the jurisdiction of this court. Reconventional and incidental demands merely follow the main demand. Opelousas St. Landry Bank & Trust Co. v. Fontenot, 173 La. 430, 137 So. 339; Succession of Solari, 218 La. 671, 50 So.2d 801; Hebert v. T. L. James & Co., 221 La. 1044, 61 So.2d 734.

The main demand, was for $2,730 but the defendant admits that he has collected $1,778, therefore the -amount in dispute posed by-the main, demand-would be $952, or an amount insufficient to give- .us. appellate jurisdiction.

Under the provisions of Article 7, Section 10 of the Constitution of Louisiana, we do not liave appellate .jurisdiction where the amount in dispute, is less, than $2,000, exclusive of interest,

It is ordered that this ca-se be transferred-to the Court of Appeal, Parish of,'Orleans, provided that the record is, filed, in that court within thirty days frorn the date upon, which this decree shall becpme final; otherwise, the appeal shall be dismissed. The costs incurred in this cqurf shall be paid by appellant.

LE BLANC, J., absent.