Case ID: la_134/html/0977-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LAND, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(64 South. 873.)
    No. 20,495.
    BLACHE v. GRECO et al.
    (March 30, 1914.)
    
      (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
    
    Courts (§ 224*) — Louisiana—Jurisdiction of Supreme Court.
    • An appeal from an order dissolving an injunction to restrain defendants from interfering with plaintiff’s rights as secretary and treasurer of a corporation will, under the direct provisions of Act No. 19 of 1912, be transferred from the Supreme Court to the Court of Appeal, where the petition did not ask for a money judgment, and the record nowhere showed that the amount in dispute exceeded the sum of $2,000, below which the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction does not extend.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Courts, Cent. Dig. §§ 487, 608, 609, 614, 616, 617; Dec. Dig. § 224.*]
    Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Fred T. King, Judge.
    Suit by Joseph Henry Blache against Gas-par Greco and another. From an order dissolving an injunction, plaintiff appeals.
    Case transferred to Court of Appeal.
    Henifiques & Duchamp, of New Orleans, for appellant. Edgar M. Cahn and Raymond Gauche, both of New Orleans, for appellees.
   LAND, J.

Plaintiff enjoined the defendants from in any manner interfering in his rights, powers, and duties as secretary-treasurer of the Royal Distributing Company, and particularly the collection of the daily cash and the keeping of the books and records of said company. There is no money demanded in the petition, and no prayer, except for an injunction and judgment perpetuating the same. The petition alleged that the defendant Greco is the president, and the defendant Witte is the third member of the board of directors, of said company, which is engaged in operating a retail cigar store in the city of New Orleans.

On motion of the defendants, the injunction was dissolved on bond in the sum of $500. Plaintiff appealed suspensively on a bond for $100. Appellees have moved to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction in this court. There is nothing in the record to suggest that the amount in dispute exceeds the sum of $2,000, exclusive of interest, the lower limit of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

Pursuant to Act No. 19 of 1912, it is ordered that this case be transferred to the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans, and that the plaintiff and appellant pay costs of appeal up to this date.