City of Lake Charles v. George

TATE, Judge.

The district court reversed a decision of the Lake Charles Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board. The plaintiff has appealed. The defendant-appellee moves to dismiss this appeal on the ground that this court does not have appellate jurisdiction in the case.

The mover relies upon the case of City of Baton Rouge v. Gourney, La.App. 1 Cir., 160 So.2d 290. There, the First Circuit held that the Louisiana courts of appeal do not have jurisdiction of appeals of this nature because their appellate jurisdiction is limited, pertinently to the present question, to civil matters of…