Jefferson v. Tennant

PONDER, Justice,

In this Court appellants and appellee have filed a joint motion to have this appeal transferred to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on the ground.that the record does not show the value of the property involved to be in excess of our jurisdictional amount of $2,000.

It is the settled jurisprudence of this Court that the record must affirmatively show that the subject matter of the suit in a given case must be of the value to give this Court appellate jurisdiction, otherwise the appeal will be transferred to the proper court of appeal. State v. Cook, 197 La. 1027, 3…