Case ID: la-ann_5/html/0380-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Eustis, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Charity Hospital v. Charles Lammerman.
    Where the unconstitutionality or illegality of a tax is not expressly alleged, the Supremo Court has no jurisdiction unless the amount in dispute is over three hundred dollars.
    APPEAL from the Justice of the Peace of the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, A. Canonge, J.
    
      H. H. Strawbridge, for plaintiff.
    
      Jesse MeHenry, for defendant.
   The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

This is an appeal taken by the defendant from a judgment rendered against him for the sum of ten dollars, with costs, being the amount of a license for a ball, which the charity hospital claims the right to exact, under the acts of the Legislature, of 1814, and of 12th of March, 1838. It does not appear that the constitutionality or legality of this tax is involved in this case. First Municipality v. Pease, 2d Ann. 538. Charity Hospital v. Stickney, 2d Ann. 551. The amount in dispute gives no jurisdiction to this court.

The appeal is therefore dismissed, with costs.