Case Name: MARTIN et al. v. TELLOTTE et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1905-12-04
Citations: 115 La. 769
Docket Number: No. 15,593
Parties: MARTIN et al. v. TELLOTTE et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 115
Pages: 398–398

Head Matter:
(40 South. 41.)
No. 15,593.
MARTIN et al. v. TELLOTTE et al.
(Dec. 4, 1905.)
1. Couets — Pleading — Jurisdictional ' Facts.
It suffices that the jurisdictional facts appear from the evidence. They need not necessarily appear from the pleadings.
2. Injunction — Dissolution—Liability on
Bond.
Where the cutting of timber is enjoined, and the injunction is bonded, and after trial on the merits is dissolved, attorney’s fees and other expenses relating distinctly to the bonding of the injunction may be allowed as damages.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal from Judicial District Court, Parish of Terrebonne; Louis Philip Caillouet, Judge.
Action by Francis Martin and others against Joseph C. Tellotte and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
Affirmed.
Suthon, Wallis & Wuozlow and J. Zach Spearing, for appellants. Howell & Martin, l’or appellees.

Opinion:
PROYOSTY, J.
An injunction sued out by plaintiffs to prevent the cutting of timber on lands that plaintiffs erroneously thought to be theirs was first set aside on bond, and then, after trial, dissolved. Defendant Eells, to whom the land belonged, claimed $2,500 damages; and defendant Tellotte, who was cutting the timber under contract with Eells, claimed $1,800 damages. The court disallowed damages, except $250 for attorney's fees and $35 for traveling expenses incurred by Eells in going to see his lawyer and preparing for the defense.
The appeal is being prosecuted by the plaintiffs. Defendants have moved to dismiss, on the ground that the amount in dispute is, not shown to exceed $2,000. In the alternative, defendants pray for an increase of damages.
The motion to dismiss must be denied. True, the petition fails to put a value upon the land in dispute; but the evidence does, and that suffices.
On the merits the judgment must be affirmed. The counsel fees and expenses allowed as damages were those relating distinctly to the bonding of the injunction. Adam Bros. v. Gomila & Co. et al" 37 La. Ann. 479; Succession of P. G. Quin, 37 La. Ann. 391; Gabriel Rawitzky v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., 40 La. Ann. 47, 3 South. 387. On the other hand, the dismissal of the claim for damages as in case of nonsuit was clearly correct under the evidence.
Judgment affirmed.