Catlett v. Catlett

HAMLIN, Justice ad hoc.

Plaintiffs appealed to this Court from a judgment dismissing plaintiffs’ suit, ordering a cancellation of a lis pendens, and sustaining exceptions of no cause and no right of action filed by the defendants.

After the appeal was properly filed, counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants filed a joint motion in this Court, in which they prayed that the appeal be transferred to the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit. They alleged that the requirements of Article VII, sec. 10, Louisiana Constitution of 1921, LSA, were not met, in that the jurisdictional amount (over $2,000) was…