Case Name: IN RE. LAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF LOUISIANA
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1913-12-22
Citations: 11 Teiss. 160
Docket Number: No. 6014
Parties: IN RE. LAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF LOUISIANA.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions, Court of Appeal, parish of Orleans (Teissier)
Volume: 11
Pages: 160–162

Head Matter:
No. 6014.
IN RE. LAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF LOUISIANA.
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
Syllabus.
This Court on appeal having rendered a final decree amending the judgment appealed from at the cost of the appellee, has jurisdiction of an appeal from a judgment subsequently rendered' by’the trial Court- on- a rule'to fix or tax the costs under said decree.
Appeal from the Civil District Court, for the Parish of Orleans, Division “B,” No. 99,284. Hon F. D. King, 'Judge.
Theo. Cotonio, for plaintiff and appellant.
Smart & Patorno, for defendant and appellee.

Opinion:
His Honor, EMILE GODCHAUX,
rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:
When this cause was before us on a prior appeal, Nos. 5738 and 5739 of our docket (10 Ct. of App., 180), we rendered a final decree amending one of the judgments appealed from ' ' at the cost -of appellee. ' ' Upon the filing of this decree below, the then appellant took a rule to tax or fix the costs i-n accordance therewith; and a judgment taxing these costs at $25.00 having been rendered, the defendant in rule, the Land Development Company, now appeals.
Opinion and decree, December 22nd, 1913.
Syllabus.
Involves only a matter of costs.
A motion is now made- to dismiss this appeal on the ground that "the judgment appealed from is for . an amount below the minimum amount over which this Court has appellate jurisdiction. "
There is no merit in this motion; for as this is an appeal from a judgment taxing costs under our prior decree, this Court is vested with jurisdiction in the premises regardless of the amount in dispute. '
State ex rel. Johnson vs. Judges, 107 La., 69; Globe Realty Co., vs. Vix, 120 La., 95.
The motion to dismiss is accordingly overruled.
The motion to dismiss overruled.