Case Name: Abney, Love & Co. vs. Mrs. S. H. Whitted
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1876-07
Citations: 28 La. Ann. 818
Docket Number: No. 621
Parties: Abney, Love & Co. vs. Mrs. S. H. Whitted.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 28
Pages: 818–819

Head Matter:
No. 621.
Abney, Love & Co. vs. Mrs. S. H. Whitted.
The claim o£ plaintiffs is for a sum exceeding five hundred dollars, and the fact that in the answer and as a witness defendant admitted being indebted for a less sum did not change the demand of plaintiffs. Had the amount admitted been certain and plaintiffs taken a judgment therefor, and thus left a small amount only in contest, the jurisdiction would have been affected. It is the demand of plaintiffs', that gives jurisdiction.
The simple act of giving a mortgage to a creditor to secure his claim does not of itself constitute a ground for the writ of attachment.
APPEAL from the Seventeenth Judicial District Court, parish of Bed Biver. Glxapin, J.
J. 3?. Pierson, for plaintiffs and appellees.
L. B. Watkins, for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
Howell, J.
A motion is made to dismiss this appeal because, the defendant, having on the trial confessed the greater portion of the debt sued for, leaving a balance in dispute of less than five hundred dollars, this court is without jurisdiction.
The claim of plaintiffs is for a sum exceeding five hundred dollars, and the fact that in the answer and as a witness defendant admitted being indebted for a sum less than that sum did not change the demand of plaintiffs. Had the amounts admitted been certain and plaintiffs taken a judgment therefor, and thus left a small amount only in contest, the jurisdiction would have been affected. It is the demand of plaintiffs that gives jurisdiction.
Motion refused.