Case Name: B. A. Malone v. Lawrence Casey et als.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1873-05
Citations: 25 La. Ann. 466
Docket Number: No. 4360
Parties: B. A. Malone v. Lawrence Casey et als.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 25
Pages: 466–467

Head Matter:
No. 4360.
B. A. Malone v. Lawrence Casey et als.
The Parish Court has jurisdiction of suits for the recognition of heirship and for the partition of succession property, and where the amount involved exceeds five hundred dollars, the appeal is directly to this court.
Where in a suit instituted for partition by plaintiff against her coheirs, a curator ad hoc was-appointed, on the prayer of the plaintiff, to one of said heirs who was a minor, the appointment was erroneous.
APPEAL from the Parish Court of Jefferson. Keon, J.
W. W. Edwards, for plaintiff and appellant. B. L. Preston, for defendants and appellees.
On Motion to Dismiss the Appeal.

Opinion:
Howell, J.
A motion is made to dismiss this appeal on the ground that "if the Parish Court, from whence this appeal lias been taken,, was vested with jurisdiction of the cause, which is excepted to, then the appeal should be from that court to the district court of the judicial district, and this court has no appellate jurisdiction herein."
This proposition is not true. The parish court has juiisdiction of' suits for the recognition of heirship and the partition of succession property, as this is, and when the amount involved exceeds five hundred dollars, the appeal is directly to this court. Const., art. 88;. C. P. 1022.
Motion oyerruled.