State ex rel. Shields, Inc. v. Southport Petroleum Corp.

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

In this case we are called upon to review a judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiff’s suit as abandoned under the provisions of Article 3519 of the Civil Code.1

*201The appeal was originally lodged in the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans, and that court transferred the case here because the amount in dispute exceeded $2,000. See 78 So.2d 201.

This case is a companion case to State ex rel. Shields v. Southport Petroleum Corporation of Delaware, decided by the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans on February 28, 1955, also reported at 78 So.2d 201. The two…