Case Name: Zuberbier & Behan vs. Mrs. Julie Robin & Son
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1884-04
Citations: 36 La. Ann. 418
Docket Number: No. 9143
Parties: Zuberbier & Behan vs. Mrs. Julie Robin & Son.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 36
Pages: 418–419

Head Matter:
No. 9143.
Zuberbier & Behan vs. Mrs. Julie Robin & Son.
Where plaintiff sues for $748 31 and defendant reconvenes for $784 57, neither claim is within our jurisdiction. In this case, after answer filed to original demand, plaintiff filed an amended petition claiming $259 additional, but this claim was never put at issue by answer or default. It moreover appears from plaiutiff’s pleadings that he judicially admitted that his original claim should be reduced to $148 31, which would exclude our jurisdiction, even if we entertained the amended petition.
APPEAL from the Twenty-third District. Court, Parish of Iberville. Pope, J.
Chas. O. Lmime for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
Matthews for Defendants and Appellees.

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
FeNNBR, J.
We are manifestly without jurisdiction of this appeal.
The original petition of plaintiffs claimed from defendants a principal sum of $748 31, and by amended petition they claimed a further sum of $259.
The answer of defendants, filed before the amended petition, claimed that they were entitled to additional credits by plaintiffs, which would leave the latter indebted to them in the sum of $784 57, for which they prayed judgment in reconvention.
Interventions were filed by various persons, the nature- of which need not be stated, as they were dismissed and interveners have not appealed.
But in their answer to the interventions, plaintiffs judicially admit that of the credit claimed by defendants, six hundred dollars was due, and say: "That your respondents are not indebted to J. Robin & Son; that, on the contrary, said Robin & Son are indebted to your appear-crs, after deducting value of contents of store, (say $600), and as matters now stand between your appearers and them, in the full sum of $148 31" — being exact difference between amount of their claim in the original petition and the $600. This pleading, filed before trial, was a judicial admission ^reducing the claim against defendants below our jurisdiction, even if we considered the claim in the amended petition, and the claim of defendants against them was equally deficient.
We liave carefully examined tlie record without finding that the claim in the amended petition was ever put at issue by answer or default, and it is, therefore, not before us.
It results, that under every view we are without jurisdiction, neither the principal demand nor that in reconvention being in excess of $1000. See Lamorére vs. Avery, 32 A- 1008.
It is, therefore, ordered that this appeal be dismissed, at appellants' cost.
Rehearing refused.