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28 La. Ann. 262

Brott v. Eager

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 15, 1876

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1876-03-15

<p>'.The motion oí defendants to dismiss this appeal on the ground that the order appealed from is an interlocutory one that can not work an irreparable inj ury must prevail.</p>

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““The right to claim and the right to prosecute a suit in court, are rights which can be denied to no one. They are protected by article 10 of the Constitution.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Lewis v. D'Albor

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Decided 1876-03-15

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Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1927

3 state decisions

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Wyly, J.

¶1Plaintiff sues out an injunction restraining defendants, the lessees of the city wharves, from demanding, suing for, or attempting by legal process to collect, any fees or wharf charges imposed by city ordinances against plaintiff, or the steamboat Martha, her captain and owners, and from preventing said boat to land and remain at the wharf where she has been accustomed to land and remain, and from proceeding further in the prosecution of the suit of defendants against the stearn-Iboat Martha, her captain and owners, pending in the Third Justice’s ■ Court, parish of Orleans.

¶2Defendants obtained an order dissolving this injunction on bond, pursuant to article 307 C. P., and plaintiff appealed. Defendants now move to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the order appealed from is an interlocutory order that can not work an irreparable injury.

¶3We think the motion should be granted. How plaintiff can suffer an irreparable injury by permitting defendants to assert in court their right as lessees of the wharves to collect wharf charges and to prosecute their suit in the Third Justice’s Court against the steamboat Martha, her captain and owners, we can not imagine.

¶4The right to claim judicially what one believes he is entitled to, and the right to prosecute a suit in court, are rights which can be denied to no one. They are protected by article ten of the constitution.

¶5It is therefore ordered that the appeal herein be dismissed at appellant’s costs.

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