Vinet v. Bres
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. On Motion to Dismiss. Plaintiff alleged that Alexander W. Weems was the owner of a certain body of land in St. Tammany parish; that on the 28th of'August, 1890, he sold the same to William L. Wooten for six thousand dollars, the price evidenced by ten notes of the purchaser to his own order, and by him endorsed in blank, each for six hundred dollars, maturing at different dates, which notes were…
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. On Motion to Dismiss. Plaintiff alleged that Alexander W. Weems was the owner of a certain body of land in St. Tammany parish; that on the 28th of'August, 1890, he sold the same to William L. Wooten for six thousand dollars, the price evidenced by ten notes of the purchaser to his own order, and by him endorsed in blank, each for six hundred dollars, maturing at different dates, which notes were secured by special mortgage and vendor’s privilege on the property sold. That on the 12th of January, 1893, Wooten sold the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
Defendants prayed that plaintiff’s demand be rejected, and that they be dismissed. They asked no affirmative relief; their prayer was purely defensive. There was no reconventional demand.
Only one judgment was rendered in the case.
It has been sometimes stated that the jurisdiction governing'a plaintiff’s demand is to be tested by that demand, and not by the defendant’s position before the court. Buisson vs. Staats, 9 An. 236; Gustine vs. N. O. Oil Co., 13 An. 510; Flood vs. Shamburgb, 3 N. S. 626; Succession of Hoover vs. York, 30 An. 754.
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