Case Name: SOUTHERN SCRAP MATERIAL CO. v. LIQUIDATING COM'RS OF CARONDELET CANAL & NAVIGATION CO. et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1918-06
Citations: 143 La. 647
Docket Number: No. 21524
Parties: SOUTHERN SCRAP MATERIAL CO. v. LIQUIDATING COM’RS OF CARONDELET CANAL & NAVIGATION CO. et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 143
Pages: 647–647

Head Matter:
(79 South. 176)
No. 21524.
SOUTHERN SCRAP MATERIAL CO. v. LIQUIDATING COM’RS OF CARONDELET CANAL & NAVIGATION CO. et al.
(June, 1918.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Courts <&wkey;224(11) — Appellate Jurisdiction —Supreme Court — Transfer of Cause.
Where the amount sued for, as reduced by the abandonment of a claim for punitory damages, leaves in dispute an amount less than $2,-OOO, but within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal, the appeal will be transferred to that court.
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; E.- K. Skinner, Judge. ,
Action by the Southern Scrap Material Company against the Liquidating Commissioners of the Carondelet Canal & Navigation Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and all parties appeal. Appeal transferred to the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans.
Meyer S. Dreifus, of New Orleans, for plaintiff. Benjamin T. Waldo, of New Orleans (Parrar, Goldberg & Dufour and W. 'C. Dufour, all of New Orleans, of counsel), for defendants Liquidating Com’rs of Carondelet Canal & Navigation Co. McCloskey & Benedict and John J. McCloskey, all of New Orleans, for appellant defendant New Orleans Brewing Co.

Opinion:
MONROE, C. J.
Plaintiff sues for the recovery of a certain crane and appurtenances, or, in the alternative, for $1,500, as the value of the same, with interest, and for $50 per month from July 1, 1913, as> the rental value thereof, to which is added a prayer for $1,000 as punitory damages. There was judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $600, from which the litigants on both sides, have appealed. The claim for punitory damages has been abandoned; that for .rental amounted, at the date of the institution of the suit (July 24, 1913), to less than $50, and no evidence was adduced on the trial in its support; from all of which we conclude that this court is without jurisdiction of the appeal.
Agreeably, therefore, to the provisions of Act No. 19 of 1912, it is ordered that this appeal be transferred to the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans; the costs of the appeal to this court to be divided between the litigants in equal proportions.