Case Name: PARKER et al. v. T. SMITH & SON, Inc. et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1953-03-23
Citations: 64 So. 2d 432
Docket Number: No. 40526
Parties: PARKER et al. v. T. SMITH & SON, Inc. et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 64
Pages: 432–432

Head Matter:
222 La. 1061
PARKER et al. v. T. SMITH & SON, Inc. et al.
No. 40526.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 23, 1953.
Alcide J. Weysham, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants and intervenors-appel-lants.
Terriberry, Young, Rault & Carroll, Walter Carroll and Chas. J. Rivet, for ap-pellees.

Opinion:
FOURNET, Chief Justice.
On separate motions filed respectively by the attorneys for the appellees, T. Smith & Son, Inc., and International Longshoremen's Association, Local 1419, and by the attorneys for the appellants, George Parker, et al., pointing out to. the Court our lack of appellate jurisdiction under " the jurisprudence of this State, the action being a cumulation in a single suit of numerous individual demands of less than $2,000 (see State ex rel. Langlois v. Lancaster, 218 La. 1052, 51 So.2d 622; Sheffield v. Jefferson Parish Developers, Inc., 213 La. 799, 35 So.2d 737; Alessi v. Town of Independence, 142 La. 338, 76 So. 792; State ex rel. North v. Ermon, 133 La. 952, 63 So. 479; State ex rel. Sumner Bldg. & Supply Co. v. Judges, 105 La. 333, 29 So. 892; Landry v. Caffery Cent. Sugar Refinery & R. Co., 104 La. 757, 29 So. 349);
By virtue of the authority vested in this Court by LSA-R.S. 13:4441, 13:4442, it is ordered that this case be transferred to the Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans, the transfer to be made within 30 days after this decree has become final; otherwise the appeal is to be dismissed; the appellants to pay the costs of the appeal to this Court and the costs of transferring the case to the Court of Appeal-; all other costs to await the final disposition of the case.