Case Name: John L. Tippit v. M. H. Lippmins
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1870-07
Citations: 22 La. Ann. 465
Docket Number: No. 102
Parties: John L. Tippit v. M. H. Lippmins.
Judges: Howe, J. I concur in the decree in this case.
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 465–467

Head Matter:
No. 102.
John L. Tippit v. M. H. Lippmins.
The Supreme Court can only take jurisdiction of appeals from parish courts, in probate cases, when the amount involved is above five hundred dollars. Therefore, no appeal will lie tc the Supreme Court from a judgment of the district court, rendered on appeal from the parish, court.
APPEAL from the Eleventh District Court, of the parish of Claiborne. Fgan, J.
J. B. Watkins, for plaintiff and appellant. Gray t(i Blackman, for defendant and appellee.

Opinion:
Ltjdeling, C. J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Eleventh District Court, affirming a judgment of a parish court.
We have not the power to revise the judgments of district courts, rendered on appeals from the parish courts. To do so, would he virtually to entertain an appeal from a judgment of the parish court; and the only cases in which this court can entertain appeals from the parish courts are probate eases, when the amount exceeds five hundred dollars, exclusive of interest; and in such cases the appeal is directly from the parish to the Supreme Court. Articles 87 and 88 of the constitution.
If the parish courts entertain jurisdiction in cases in which the constitution denies them jurisdiction, their acts are nullities, and they may be corrected on appeal to the district courts, or by action oi nullity.
It is therefore ordered that the appeal be dismissed, at the appellant's cost.
Howe, J. I concur in the decree in this case.