Gibbs v. Booth Stanfill

HARDY, Judge.

This is an action for damages, allegedly resulting from the wrongful acts of defendants, instituted in the Tenth Judicial District Court in and for Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. An exception to the jurisdiction ratione personae was filed on behalf of the defendants, based upon the representation that all defendants were nonresidents of the Parish of Natchitoches. The exception was sustained and there was judgment dismissing plaintiff’s suit, from which he has appealed.

Plaintiff’s petition alleges him to be the sub-lessee of a certain described ten acre tract of land located in…