Southern Timber & Land Co. v. Wartell

Citations

• 109 La. 453
• 33 So. 559
• 1903 La. LEXIS 398

Syllabus

<p>APPEAL — JURISDICTIONAL AMOUNT.</p> <p>1. In a petitory action, where the plaintiff, claiming ownership of a tract of land, alleges that several parties, who are made defendants, are trespassing, each upon a particular subdivision of such tract, which subdivision is described and designated, and the value of which appears upon the record, and prays judgment against each of said defendants with respect to the subdivision which he is alleged to be trespassing upon, and for the rents and revenues thereof, and where it is not alleged and does not appear that the defendants trace title to a common author, that there is any privity or common interest between them, or that either will be affected by a judgment against the other, the appellate jurisdiction of this court with respect to the demand against each defendant depends upon the amount or value demanded from him, and not upon the aggregate amount or value demanded from all of them.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>