Case Name: WILLIAMSON v. CRIDELLE et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1918-11-04
Citations: 143 La. 1098
Docket Number: No. 23254
Parties: WILLIAMSON v. CRIDELLE et al.
Judges: PROVOSTY, J., absent on account of illness, takes no part.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 143
Pages: 1098–1099

Head Matter:
(79 South. 873)
No. 23254.
WILLIAMSON v. CRIDELLE et al.
(Nov. 4, 1918.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
Courts @=224(2) — Louisiana Supreme Court — Jurisdiction—Amount.
In a suit to have a municipal election declared void, and in the alternative that plaintiff be decreed mayor, without allegation of evidence of amount involved, and where salary of mayor could not be over $2,000, the Supreme Court was without jurisdiction of plaintiff’s appeal.
Appeal from Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Morehouse; Ben C. Dawkins, Judge.
Suit by George F. Williamson against Dr. R. L. Cridelle and others. From a judgment dismissing the suit, plaintiff appeals.
Appeal dismissed.
J. T. Shell, of Bastrop, for appellant.
H. Flood Madison, of Bastrop, for appellees.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
SOMMERYILLE, J.
Plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing his suit to have declared null and void the municipal election held in the village of Bonita on April 16, 1918, and, in the alternative, that he be decreed to have been elected mayor of the village.
There is no allegation or evidence in the record as to the amount involved. The salary of the office of mayor of a village for two years cannot be over $2,000. The court is therefore without jurisdiction.
For the reasons assigned in Rownd v. Cormish, 130 La. 739, 58 South. 528, Landry v. Gonzales, 142 La. 577, 77 South. 287, Aubert v. Burns, 142 La. 895, 77 South. 782, Oberly v. Calcasieu Parish School Board, 142 La. 788, 77 South. 600, Dejean v. Breaux, 140 La. 378, 73 South. 238, and the authorities cited in those cases—
The appeal is dismissed.
PROVOSTY, J., absent on account of illness, takes no part.