¶1rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:
¶2Defendants admit they are liable to plaintiff for having' wrongfully caused her property, that is, the contents of her home, to be seized by the constable under execution of a judgment they had obtained against one E. Block. On this appeal the sole complaint of defendants is that the damages assessed by the trial Court are excessive and we are of opinion that this complaint is justified.
¶3The seizure was levied in the morning and was released on the afternoon of the same day, without the necessity of a resort to judicial process, the defendants directing the constable to desist as soon as they were advised of the error by the attorney whom plaintiff had consulted.
¶4For the mental distress, annoyance and mortification she endured, plaintiff is undoubtedly entitled to recover; but the levy was accompanied by no publicity and she suffered no injury to her credit or reputation, nor any monetary loss whatever beyond the obligation to pay the attorney aforesaid for the service stated.
¶5However, there was no justification whatever for the seizure beyond the fact of the similarity in the surnames of plaintiff and the judgment debtor. They were in no manner related, connected or acquainted with one *315another, and they resided respectively in widely separated sections of the city.
¶6Defendants point to no circumstance that might have led them into the error of believing that the property which they directed the constable to seize was that of their judgment debtor. On the contrary, they acted wholly without information upon the subject, without previous investigation and with such inexcusable recklessness and negligence and such wanton indifference for the rights of others, as to warrant the imposition of punitory damages, even though their action was apparently prompted by no ill-feeling towards plaintiff, nor intent to injure her.
¶7Inasmuch, however, as plaintiff’s mental suffering was but temporary, and her financial loss negligible,' .an award of $225.00 will amply serve not only to fully compensate her, but to discourage and deter others in the reckless use of the Court’s process.
¶8In determining the nature and amount of the damages allowed, the Court has been guided by the following authorities, to which its attention has been directed:
¶9R. C. C., 1930, 1934.
¶1013 Cyc., 105, 110, “Damages.”
¶11Kent vs. Heymann, 7 Ct. of App., 399.
¶12Offutt vs. Edwards, 9 Rob., 90.
¶13Senecal vs. Smith, 9 Rob., 418.
¶14Presas vs. Lanata, 11 Rob., 288.
¶15Littlejohn vs. Wilcox, 2 A., 620.
¶16Biggs vs. Daquin, 13 A., 21.
¶17Moore vs. Whittenberg, 13 A., 22.
¶18Byrne vs. Gardner, 33 A., 6.
¶19Ross vs. Goldman, 36 A., 132.
¶20Deslond vs. O’Hern, 39 A., 14,
¶21Steinhardt vs. Lemann, 41 A., 838,
¶22Savoie vs. Scanlon, 43 A., 973.
¶23Chaffe, et als., vs. McKensie, 43 A., 1069,
¶24Lewis vs. Holmes, 109 La., 1030.
¶25It is accordingly decreed that the judgment be amended by reducing same from $350.00 to $225.00 and that as thus amended it be affirmed, the appellant to pay the costs of appeal.