Case Name: State ex rel. Joseph D. Taylor vs. Judges of the Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans, et als.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1901-11
Citations: 107 La. 784
Docket Number: No. 14,423
Parties: State ex rel. Joseph D. Taylor vs. Judges of the Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans, et als.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 107
Pages: 784–785

Head Matter:
No. 14,423.
State ex rel. Joseph D. Taylor vs. Judges of the Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans, et als.
Syllabus.
When by remittitur entered before Judgment in the lower court the amount in dispute is reduced to below the jurisdiction of the appellate court, the latter court has not jurisdiction.
APPLICATION for Writs of Mandamus, Prohibition and Certiorari.
James B. Rosser, Jr., for Relator.
Respondent Judges pro se.
Joseph Brewer, for Miss Ida Ober, Respondent.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Provosty, J.
Miss Ida Ober brought suit in the Civil District Court of the Parish: of Orleans against relator for $104.16, and before judgment entered a remittitur for $20.83, leaving $83.33 as the amount of her demand. Judgment was rendered in her favor for this amount and from this judgment .the relator took an appeal to the Court of Appeal of the Parish of Orleans, the lowest limit of whose jurisdiction in appeals from the Civil District Court is $100.00. On exception that court dismissed the appeal, and this is an application to compel it to entertain jurisdiction. Plow can it do so when the lower limit of its jurisdiction in such cases is $100.00, and the suit involves only $83.00 ?
The application must be denied and dismissed, and it is so ordered.
Rehearing refused.