Case Name: JOHN F. LINDNER VS. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1906-03-19
Citations: 3 Teiss. 263
Docket Number: No. 3821
Parties: JOHN F. LINDNER VS. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions, Court of Appeal, parish of Orleans (Teissier)
Volume: 3
Pages: 263–266

Head Matter:
No. 3821.
Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans.
JOHN F. LINDNER VS. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
ON MOTION TO DISMISS.
Where in matters affecting appellate jurisdiction, the record is not silent as to value, no affidavits .as to value will be received by this Court, they are admissible to fill a biatus but not to contradict the record.
Appeal from Civil District Court, Division “D.”
Theo. Cotonio, Plaintiff and Appellee.
St.Clair Adams, for Defendant and Appellant.

Opinion:
DUFOUR, J.
Plaintiff moves to dismiss the appeal on the ground that this Court is without jurisdiction ratione materiae and he files in support thereof his affidavit that the property is worth $2,500.
The only evidence of value in the record is to be found in the tax deeds to plaintiff which show that the property was bought by him from both State and City for a tax, the amount of which under the rate of taxation of which we may take judicial cognizance, would place the assessment value at about $3°°-
March 19, 1906.
In the absence of other proof this must be accepted as a guide; If the value had enhanced at the time of trial, there was no attempt made to show it.
Where the record is not silent as to value, no affidavits will be received by this Court; they are admissable to fill a hiatus, but not to contradict the record.
Motion denied.