The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-03-19
No. %. AN ACT


To provide for the transfer of causes
pending in the courts established by
the constitution of 1868 to the courts
established by the constitution of
1879.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Louisi-
ana, That all appeals, which are now
taken or which shall hereafter be taken
from any Judgment rendered, or which
shall hereafter be rendered by tho par
ish courts of this State, aud which ap-
peals shall be pending for trial in or
which shall not have been decided or
disposed of by the Supreme Court of
this State prior to tho first Monday of
April, 1880, and in which the matter
In dispute or funds to be distributed
shall exceed one thousand dollars, ex-
elusive of interest, all suits for divorce
and separation from bed and board,
and all cases in which the constitution
ality or legality Of any tax, toll or i'm
post, whatever may be the amount
Monday in April, 1850, be transferred
TO and removed for trial into the Su-
prene Court established by the consti-
tuition of 1879.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That all appeals which are now taken
or which shall hereafter be taken from
any judgment rendered or which shall
hereafter be rendered by the parish
courts of this State, and which appeals
shall be pending for trial in or which
shall not have been decided or dis
posed of by the district courts of this
State, under the constitution of 1868,
prior to the first Monday of April, 1880,
and in which the matter in dispute or
funds to be distributed shall exceed
two hundred dollars, exclusive of in
terest, shall, on and after the first Mon
day in April, 1880, be transferred to
and removed for trial into the court of
appeals for the circuit in which the
said appeal may be taken or pending,
except cases provided for in section one.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That in all causes, as in section de-
fined, where the matter in dispute or
fund to be distributed shall not exceed
two hundred dollars, exclusive of in
terest, the appeals so taken or pending
prior to the first Monday in April, 1880,
shall, on and after that date, be trans
ferred to and removed fo- trial and de-
termination into the district courts, un-
der the constitution of 1879, for the
parish in which said appeals shall
have been so previously pending or
taken and tried dc ,souo.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, ETC.,
That all causes now instituted or pend
ing, or which shall hereafter be insti-
tuted, in the parish courts of this State,
and which shall be pending therein
and not disposed of prior to the first
Monday in April, 1880, and where the
matter in dispute shall exceed one hun
dred dollars, exclusive of interest; and
all suits against SUGGESTIONS, and all
probate matter, shall on and after the
first Monday in April, 1880, be trans
ferrcd, and removed into the district
court, under the constitution Of 1879,
for the parish in which tho said cause
was so previously instituted or pend
ing.
| Sec. s. BE it further enacted, ETC.,
That in all such cases rs in section 4
defined, probate and succession matter
excepted, where the matter in dispute
shall not exceed fifty dollars, exclusive
of interest, each of such causes shall
on and after the first Monday in April,
1880, be transferred and removed for
trial and determination into tho court
of justice of tho peace before whom
the defendants arc sueable.
| Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, ETC.,
That in all such cases as in section 4
defined, probate and succession matters,
or when Il succession is defendant, ex-
cepted, where the matter in dispute
shall exceed fifty dollars, exclusive OF
interest, and shall not exceed one hun
dred dollars, exclusive of interest, each