Case Name: Crescent City Live Stock and Slaughter-House Company vs. John Larrieux
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1878-04
Citations: 30 La. Ann. 798
Docket Number: No. 6703
Parties: Crescent City Live Stock and Slaughter-House Company vs. John Larrieux.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 30
Pages: 798–800

Head Matter:
No. 6703.
Crescent City Live Stock and Slaughter-House Company vs. John Larrieux.
Where a corporation entitled to certain exclusive privileges enjoins a defendant from further violating those privileges, alleging that defendant had already damaged them, by violating said privilege, to the extent of S200, and making affidavit that the amount in dispute, and the right claimed by them was over $500 exclusive of interest and cost, this court will have jurisdiction of an appeal taken in such a case.
A corporation which is entitled by its charter to sue for fines and penalties for violations of its privileges, is likewise entitled to sue out writs of injunction to prevent and restrain from the violations of those privileges.
APPEAL from the Third District Court, parish of Orleans. Monroe, J.
Robert Mott for plaintiffs and appellants.
JS. K. Washington for defendant and appellee.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court on the original hearing was delivered by Egan, J., and on the rehearing by Spencer, J.
Egan, J.
This suit is by the plaintiff corporation against the defendant, a private market man, to recover two hundred dollars " damages," and to enjoin further interference with, or violation of, the alleged exclusive franchises of plaintiff.
There is no allegation of value beyond the damages prayed for, and the amount alleged and prayed for being fixed in the petition at two hundred dollars, this court is without jurisdiction, ratione material, to entertain the appeal. There is no affidavit or other proof of value beyond in the record, and it is very questionable whether any affidavit could affect the value fixed by the allegations and prayer of the petition.
It is therefore ordered that this appeal be and it is hereby dismissed at the cost of appellant.