Case Name: DUGAS v. CITY OF LA FAYETTE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1923-11-19
Citations: 154 La. 961
Docket Number: No. 23986
Parties: DUGAS v. CITY OF LA FAYETTE.
Judges: By Division B, composed of Justices DAW-KINS, LAND, and LECHE.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 154
Pages: 962–962

Head Matter:
(98 South. 434)
No. 23986.
DUGAS v. CITY OF LA FAYETTE.
(Nov. 19, 1923.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
Courts <@=224(1 () — Supreme Court held not to have jurisdiction of suit to recover $1,000 license fee paid to city.
The Supreme Court, having a minimum jurisdiction of $2,000 under Const. 1921, art. 7, § 10, has no power to entertain an appeal from a judgment in a suit to recover $1,000 representing one-half of an annual fee for a retail liquor license rendered useless by the advent of national prohibition, no attack on the validity of the law under which the fee was paid being made.
Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Lafayette; William Campbell, Judge.
Action by Roussau Dugas against the City of La Eayette. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
Case transferred to court of appeals.
George P. Lessley, of La Eayette, for appellant.
Dan DeBaillon, City Atty., of La Eayette (Orther C. Mouton, of La Eayette, of counsel), for appellee.
By Division B, composed of Justices DAW-KINS, LAND, and LECHE.

Opinion:
DAWKINS, J.
Plaintiff paid to the city of La Eayette $2,000 for a retail liquor license to do business for the year 1919. National prohibition went into effect on the 1st of July of that year, and this suit is to recover back one-half of the amount so paid, or $1,000.
The case presents no attack upon the validity or constitutionality of the law under which the license fee was paid; hence this court, whose minimum jurisdiction is above $2,000, has no power to entertain the appeal. Const. 1921, art. 7, § 10.
Por the reason assigned, this case is transferred to the Court of Appeal, Eirst Circuit, appellant to pay costs of this court, all other costs to await final judgment.