Empson v. Leglue

Defendants-appellees move to dismiss the instant appeal, in an eviction suit brought by their landlord against' them, on the ground that the amount involved in the action is in excess of $2,000, our maximum jurisdictional limit.

The relationship of landlord and tenant between the parties springs from a certain act of lease and agreement to sell entered into on December 8, 1955, whereunder plaintiff leased unto the defendants certain property situated in Royland Subdivision, Parish of Jefferson, for and in consideration of the lessees’ assumption of the mortgage bearing against the leased…