WALKER v. ZIMMERMAN

No. 95-C-24.

659 So.2d 783 (1995)

Lydia WALKER, Wife of/and Thompson P. Walker v. Liz ZIMMERMAN, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., and State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Writ Denied April 21, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond A. Pelleteri, Jr. and Richard B. Ramirez, New Orleans, for relators.

George B. Recile, New Orleans, for respondents.

Before KLIEBERT, WICKER and CANNELLA, JJ.


KLIEBERT, Chief Judge.

The narrow issue before us in this writ application is whether the jurisdictional amount required for a jury trial, as per La. C.C.P. art. 1732, is determined by the date of the filing of the original petition, or the date of the filing of the supplemental and amending petition, when the legislature has raised the jurisdictional amount in the interim. The above-captioned suit arises out of an automobile accident occurring on or about September...

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