Case ID: so2d_64/html/0432-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "FOURNET, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

222 La. 1061
    PARKER et al. v. T. SMITH & SON, Inc. et al.
    No. 40526.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    March 23, 1953.
    Alcide J. Weysham, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants and intervenors-appel-lants.
    Terriberry, Young, Rault & Carroll, Walter Carroll and Chas. J. Rivet, for ap-pellees.
   FOURNET, Chief Justice.

On separate motions filed respectively by the attorneys for the appellees, T. Smith & Son, Inc., and International Longshoremen’s Association, Local 1419, and by the attorneys for the appellants, George Parker, et al., pointing out to. the Court our lack of appellate jurisdiction under „ the jurisprudence of this State, the action being a cumulation in a single suit of numerous individual demands of less than $2,000 (see State ex rel. Langlois v. Lancaster, 218 La. 1052, 51 So.2d 622; Sheffield v. Jefferson Parish Developers, Inc., 213 La. 799, 35 So.2d 737; Alessi v. Town of Independence, 142 La. 338, 76 So. 792; State ex rel. North v. Ermon, 133 La. 952, 63 So. 479; State ex rel. Sumner Bldg. & Supply Co. v. Judges, 105 La. 333, 29 So. 892; Landry v. Caffery Cent. Sugar Refinery & R. Co., 104 La. 757, 29 So. 349);

By virtue of the authority vested in this Court by LSA-R.S. 13:4441, 13:4442, it is ordered that this case be transferred to the Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans, the transfer to be made within 30 days after this decree has become final; otherwise the appeal is to be dismissed; the appellants to pay the costs of the appeal to this Court and the costs of transferring the case to the Court of Appeal-; all other costs to await the final disposition of the case.