Title: Ilardo v. Agurs
Citation: 226 La. 613, 76 So. 2d 904
Docket Number: N/A
State: Louisiana
Issuer: Louisiana Supreme Court
Date: December 13, 1954

76 So. 2d 904 (1954) 226 La. 613 Vincent ILARDO et ux. v. William C. AGURS (Mrs. Nettie A. Soniat, Administratrix). No. 41614. Supreme Court of Louisiana. December 13, 1954. *905 Albert E. Bryson, Shreveport, for defendant-appellant. Charles M. Peters, Malcolm W. Feist, Shreveport, for plaintiffs-appellees. MOISE, Justice. The defendant appealed to this Court from a judgment of the lower court awarding plaintiff a servitude. The appeal was filed pursuant to an order of the district court which followed the remand of the case by the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, where the case had been lodged on a previous appeal. 67 So. 2d 559, 560. When this case was originally lodged in the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, that court ex proprio motu, finding no evidence as to the value of the matter in contestation, remanded the case to the district court for the purpose of establishing jurisdiction. In a per curiam rejecting an application for rehearing, it recast its judgment to read as follows: The above action on the part of the Court of Appeal was unauthorized and ultra vires. Under the Constitution of 1921, the Supreme Court of Louisiana Article VII, Section 29, of the Constitution provides: "The Courts of Appeal, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution,[1] shall have appellate jurisdiction *906 only, which jurisdiction shall extend to all cases, civil and probate, of which the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, or the District Courts throughout the State, have exclusive original jurisdiction, regardless of the amount involved, or concurrent jurisdiction exceeding One Hundred Dollars, exclusive of interest, and of which the Supreme Court is not given jurisdiction, * * *." When the original trial of this case was concluded and a bond was furnished and the record lodged in the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, the district court lost all jurisdiction. Vaughn v. American Bank &amp; Trust Co., 223 La. 479, 66 So. 2d 4. There was no affirmative showing of jurisdiction in the Supreme Court, and the record did affirmatively show jurisdiction in the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal should have entertained the appeal. In the syllabus of State v. Cook, 197 La. 1027, 3 So. 2d 114, the law is correctly stated as follows: In the case of Beene v. Pardue, 226 La. 606, 76 So. 2d 902, this Court correctly stated: If this case, with record as originally made up, had been appealed to this Court, we would have transferred such to the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit. Act 19 of 1912, LSA-R.S. 13:4441. For the reasons assigned, the order of the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit of Louisiana, remanding the case to the district court, and all proceedings pursuant thereto, including the appeal taken to this Court, are set aside; and the Clerk of this Court is ordered to transfer, forthwith, the record in this case to the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit of Louisiana, in order that it may hear and dispose of the case in conformity with law. All costs to await the final determination of the cause. [1] The only exception to the above provision is to be found in Article VII, Section 2, of the Constitution of 1921, which states: "* * * the Courts of Appeal * * * may also, in aid of their * * * jurisdiction * * * issue * * * all other needful writs, orders and process, * * *."