Brown v. Mayfield

FOURNET, Chief Justi.ce.

*485This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court in favor of the plaintiffs, James Herman Brown and Mrs. Mary Brown Cowden, declaring them to be the owners of one-fourth of the gas, oil and minerals under certain described lands in Claiborne Parish, and is now before us on motion of plaintiffs-appellees to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the Court of Appeal was without authority to remand the case to the District Court in order that the value of the property in dispute might be ascertained for appellate jurisdictional purposes, as was done in this case;1…