Case Name: John D. Walsh vs. L. F. Carrene
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1884-02
Citations: 36 La. Ann. 199
Docket Number: No. 9081
Parties: John D. Walsh vs. L. F. Carrene.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 36
Pages: 199–200

Head Matter:
No. 9081.
John D. Walsh vs. L. F. Carrene.
Where tlie sum demanded is above the appealable amount, the fact that an intervention is for less than that amount, will not make the case less appealable, where the plaintiff’s claim is rejected and he appeals.
A simulated sale and mortgage of lands can be attacked by creditors of the apparent vendor when proceedings are taken to foreclose the mortgage.
APPEAL from the Nineteenth District Court, Parish of Terre-bonne. Goode, J.
Tobias Gibson for Plaintiff and Appellant.
L. F. Suthon for the Intervenors.

Opinion:
ON Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Manning, J.
Walsh instituted this suit upon a series of notes aggregating eleven hundred and eighteen dollars, secured by mortgage and vendor's lien upon certain real estate, and praying' for a judgment, recognition of mortgage, and sale of the property.
Plash, Preston & Co. intervened as judgment creditors of Carrene for $260 88, alleging that Walsh had no real claim against Carrene, but the notes and mortgage were a simulation and device to shield this property from the pursuit of creditors. The intervenor had judgment, and the plaintiff appealed.
The motion to dismiss is on the ground that "when the matter in dispute is the right to subject property worth more than the appealable sum to a judgment for less than that sum, the Supreme Court is without jurisdiction."
The matter in dispute is the right of the plaintiff to have a judgment for more than the appealable sum, and to execute it upon mortgage property of greater value than that sum.
Motion refused.