Case Name: SCHUMERT-WARFIELD-BUJA, Inc., v. BUIE et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1921-02-28
Citations: 148 La. 726
Docket Number: No. 23842
Parties: SCHUMERT-WARFIELD-BUJA, Inc., v. BUIE et al.
Judges: O’NIELL, J., dissents from that part of the decree allowing damages for frivolous appeal, and otherwise concurs.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 148
Pages: 725–727

Head Matter:
(87 South. 726)
No. 23842.
SCHUMERT-WARFIELD-BUJA, Inc., v. BUIE et al.
(Feb. 28, 1921.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
1. Injunction &wkey;>26(9) — Will not lie to prevent bringing of eviction proceedings.
An injunction will not lie to prevent the bringing of a suit, and an injunction restraining lessors from instituting eviction proceedings was properly dissolved.
2. Costs &wkey;>260(4) — Appeal from judgment dissolving' injunction against suit is frivolous.
An appeal from a judgment dissolving an injunction against the bringing of judicial proceedings fo evict a lessee is frivolous, and damages as for a frivolous appeal must be awarded.
3. Costs <&wkey;263 — Damages from frivolous appeal fixed at 10 per cent, of $2,000 when amount involved not shown.
Where it is not shown how much the amount involved in a frivolous appeal exceeds $2,000, the lower limit of the court’s jurisdiction, 10 per cent, of that amount, will be awarded as damages.
O’Nrell, J., dissenting in part.
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Fred D. King, Judge.
Action by the Schumert-Warfield-Buja, Incorporated, against Irma Buie and another. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
Meyer S. Dreifus, of New Orleans, for appellant.
Dart, Kernan & Dart, of New Orleans, for appellees.

Opinion:
PRO VO STY, J.
On receiving notice to vacate the leased premises, the plaintiff company enjoined the defendant, its-lessors, from instituting eviction proceedings or from attempting eviction in any other unlawful manner, or by any other means. As plaintiff does not pretend to have had reason to apprehend, or to have in fact apprehended, that eviction would be attempted in any other manner than by judicial proceedings, the injunction was aimed solely ,at the latter. It was granted inadvertently, for nothing is better settled than that injunction will not lie to prevent the bringing of a suit (Le Blanc v. New Orleans, 138 La. 243, and long list of cases at page 267, 70 South. 212, at pages 220 and 221; Reynaud v. Uncle Sam Co., 146 La. 400, 83 South. 688), and was accordingly promptly dissolved. Plaintiff should have desisted from further prosecution of this suit, but, instead of so doing, appealed. The appeal was manifestly frivolous, and damages as for frivolous appeal nfust be awarded to defendant. Usually in such cases the allowance is 10 per cent, on the amount involved. Nothing showing, however, by how much the amount involved in this case exceeds the lower'limit of the jurisdiction of this court, $2,000, we will adopt that figure as the basis of computation and fix the damages, at $200. If that allowance falls short of the expenses and losses which the appeal has caused defendant, the latter have but themselves to blame for not having furnished proof of a higher basis for computation of the damages.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the judgment appealed from be affirmed, and that the defendants, Irma Buie and the C. C. Cordill Investment Company, have judgment against Schumert-Warfield-Buja, Incorporated, in the sum of $200, with legal interest thereon from this date, and that the plaintiffs pay the costs of this suit.
O'NIELL, J., dissents from that part of the decree allowing damages for frivolous appeal, and otherwise concurs.