Parker v. Shropshire

This suit was instituted in the parish court of Jefferson. The amount claimed is $446 95, with interest from ninth July, 1866.

In the parish court defendants excepted to the jurisdiction upon the ground that the amount in dispute exceeded $500. The exception was dismissed.

The parish of Jefferson having been divided, and a portion thereof having been annexed to the parish of Orleans, the case found its way *38into the Fifth District Court of this parish. There the exception was again urged and again overruled, for the reason that it “had been passed upon by the court from which the case was…