Case Name: CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, ET AL. vs. W. H. HOWCOTT ET AL.
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1910-11-21
Citations: 8 Teiss. 54
Docket Number: 5094
Parties: CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, ET AL. vs. W. H. HOWCOTT ET AL.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions, Court of Appeal, parish of Orleans (Teissier)
Volume: 8
Pages: 54–58

Head Matter:
5094.
(Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans).
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, ET AL. vs. W. H. HOWCOTT ET AL.
ON MOTION TO DISMISS.
An appeal will not be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction ratione materia where the appellant in an affidavit accompanying his motion for an appeal fixes the value of the matter in dispute at an amount sufficient to confer jurisdiction in the appellate court.
ON THE MERITS.
Where from a fair construction of a petition as a whole it does not appear ¡that the defendants in a possessory action are affirmatively charged' as joint trespassers, an exception of misjoinder of parties defendant is properly sustained and the suit dismissed
Motion to dimiss denied and judgment affirmed.
Appeal from the Civil District Court, Division “B.”
Gr L. Dupre and J. F. C. Waldo, for plaintiff and appellant.
J. J. McLoughlin, C. J. Theard, Favrot & Friedrichs, W. W. Wall, for defendants and appellees.
Ball & Monroe and A. Vo or hies, attorneys.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
GODCHAUX, J.
The motion to dismiss is founded upon the alleged failure of the record to disclose the amount or value of the matter in dispute, namely, the right of possession. In an affidavit accompanying the motion for an appeal, appellant deposes that this amount exceeds $100, and, although seasonably advised of the filing of this affidavit appellees have failed to challenge its truth by counter affidavit or otherwise.
Under these circumstances we must maintain the appeal.
State Ex. Rel. Scares vs. Hebrew Congregation, 31 An. 205
The motion to dismiss is accordingly denied.