Case Name: MANCUSO v. JOSEPH CHALONA CO.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1919-11-03
Citations: 145 La. 896
Docket Number: No. 23228
Parties: MANCUSO v. JOSEPH CHALONA CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 145
Pages: 895–897

Head Matter:
(83 South. 183)
No. 23228.
MANCUSO v. JOSEPH CHALONA CO.
(Nov. 3, 1919.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
1. Courts <&wkey;487(2) — Transfer' to Court of Appeal admission that amount is less THAN JURISDICTIONAL AMOUNT.
In view of Const, art. 85, giving the Supreme Court no jurisdiction unless the amount in contest exceeds $2,000, exclusive of inter est, where, in an action for personal injuries resulting in judgment for plaintiff for $500, plaintiff, answering defendant’s appeal, alleges the judgment should be increased to $1,000, the appeal, on motion of the Supreme Court, will be transferred to the Court of Appeal.
2. Costs <@=3238(1) — Payment of costs on TRANSFERRED APPEAL. .
Where it was by the fault or error of plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries involving less than $2,000, that defendant’s appeal was brought to the Supreme Court, on transfer of the appeal to the Court of Appeal plaintiff will be ordered to pay costs in the Supreme Court.
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; E. K. Skinner, Judge.
Action by Albert Maneuso against the Joseph Chalona Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
Case transferred to the Court of Appeal.
J.- C. Henriques, of New Orleans, for appellant.
Girault Farrar and Andrew M. Frolich, both of New Orleans, for appellee.

Opinion:
O'NIELL, J.
Plaintiff sued for $2,563 damages for personal injuries for an alleged tort. From a judgment in his favor for $500, the defendant, appeals, and plaintiff, answering the appeal, alleges that the amount of the judgment should be increased to $1,000, and prays that it be amended accordingly.
The answer to the appeal is an admission that the amount that was in contest when the case was submitted to the district judge for decision did not exceed $1,000. The Supreme Court has not jurisdiction unless the amount in contest exceeds $2,000 exclusive of interest. Constitution, art. 85. The evidence discloses that the extent of plaintiff's injuries was very much exaggerated in his petition.
Pursuant to our ruling in Reine v. Pontchartrain Railroad Co., 144 La. 750, 81 South. 301, and other cases there cited, we will, on our own motion, transfer the appeal to the Court of Appeal, and condemn plaintiff, by whose error or fault the appeal was brought to this court; to pay the costs of the present appeal.
It is ordered that this case be transferred to the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans, and that plaintiff pay the costs of the appeal to the Supreme Court.