Draper v. Terrell
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE CITY COURT OF NEW-ORLEANS. This is a suit first instituted in the court of the presiding judge of the City Court of New-Orleans, against the defendant, on his promissory note for seven hundred and eighty' dollars. The plaintiff had judgment, and the defendant prayed for, and obtained an appeal directly to the Supreme Court.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE CITY COURT OF NEW-ORLEANS. This is a suit first instituted in the court of the presiding judge of the City Court of New-Orleans, against the defendant, on his promissory note for seven hundred and eighty' dollars. The plaintiff had judgment, and the defendant prayed for, and obtained an appeal directly to the Supreme Court. The act of 1826, creating and organizing the City Court of New-Orleans, section 5, provides that either party has “ the right of appeal from any final judgment rendered by the presiding judge of said court, either to the…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The defendants are appellants from a judgment in which the plaintiff recovered the sum of seven hundred and eighty dollars, and the appeal is taken directly to this court, without any intermediate one, to the District or Parish Court. The plaintiff and appellee has prayed an affirmance of the judgment, with damages, for a frivolous appeal, which he alleges was taken for no other purpose than delay.
The appellant has resisted his claim on the ground that this court is without jurisdiction, in the case of an appeal directly brought to it, from the presiding judge of the City Court,
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