Case ID: la_160/html/0207-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "O’NIELL, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(106 So. 785)
    No. 25488.
    MONJURE v. COUSINS.
    (Jan. 4, 1926.)
    
      (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
    
    Courts &wkey;>224(9)—Appeal from judgment on reconventional demand lies to Court of Appeals, where it has jurisdiction of main demand.
    In action for return of money paid on purchase price for property, wherein defendant filed reconventional demand to require plaintiff to accept title and pay balance of purchase price, held that under Const. 1921, art. 7, §§ 1, 10, 29, appeal from judgment for defendant on her reconventional demand lies to Court of Appeals of proper parish, and not to the Supreme Court, where amount of main demand was within jurisdiction of Court of Appeals, notwithstanding amount of judgment was in excess of $2,000.
    Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Columbus Reid, Judge.
    Action by Anthony Monjure against Mrs. Amelia Cousins, wherein defendant filed a reconventional demand. From a judgment for defendant on her reconventional demand, plaintiff appeals.
    Case transferred to the Court of Appeal for the parish of Orleans.
    J. C. Davey and R. C. Davey, both of New Orleans, for appellant.
    Louis Randolph Hoover, of New Orleans, for appellee.
   O’NIELL, C. J.

This is a suit to recover $335, with legal interest from judicial demand, on the allegation that plaintiff paid the amount to the defendant under a contract to buy certain described property from her for $3,350, and afterwards found that the title was not good. The defendant answered, averring that the title was good, and praying that plaintiff’s demand should be rejected; and, assuming the position of plaintiff in re-convention, she prayed for a judgment compelling the plaintiff to accept the title and to pay the balance of the purchase price, $3,-015, with legal interest from judicial demand. There was judgment for the defendant rejecting the plaintiff’s demand, and ordering him to comply with the defendant’s reconrentional demand, to accept the title, and pay the $3,015, balance of the purchase price of the property, with legal interest from judicial demand. The plaintiff has appealed from the judgment.

In the second paragraph of section 1 of article 7 of the Constitution it is provided that in all cases where there is an appeal from a judgment on a reconventional or other incidental demand the appeal shall lie to the court having jurisdiction of the main demand, provided that, if there be no right of appeal on the main demand, the appeal shall lie to the court having jurisdiction of the re-conventional demand. The court that has jurisdiction of the main demand in this case is the Court of Appeal for the parish of.Orleans. Section 29 and second paragraph of section 10 of article 7 of the Constitution. The main demand in this case was not for the property, or its value, ibut for the return of the $335 paid on the purchase price.

It is ordered that this case be transferred to the Court of Appeal for the parish of Orleans.