Fontenot v. Babineaux

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The appeal in this case was transferred to this court by order of the Court of Appeal for the First Circuit on the joint motion of the parties litigant declaring simply “that the amount in dispute between the parties is in excess of $2,000.”

The appeal to the Court of Appeal for the First Circuit was originally taken by the plaintiff, John C. Fontenot, from a judgment of the lower court dismissing the proceedings instituted by him under the provisions of Section 2155 of the Revised Statutes of 1870 to eject the defendants, Jesse and Harry Babineaux, from the premises…