Action by the State of Louisiana, on the relation of Bruce Nunez, against Ludlow B. Baynard, Jr., Auditor of the State of Louisiana, and others for writs of mandamus to compel State Auditor and State Treasurer to honor relator's warrant for his salary as Assistant District Attorney for the biennium beginning on July 1, 1942. Defendants appealed to the Supreme Court from judgment for relator making the writs peremptory, 14 So.2d 611, 203 La. 711, and the case was transferred to the Court of Appeal for the first circuit, parish of East Baton Rouge. Affirmed.
We are readily convinced that Jurisdiction cannot be established by the cumulation of the amounts involved in the two separate rules which are before us on separate appeals from the judgment rendered in each case. The same issue appeared in the case of State ex rel. Nunez v. Baynard and State ex rel. McBride v. Bayard, 203 La. 711, 14 So.2d 611, 613, wherein the Court stated: "The consolidation of the two cases for the purpose of the trial does not confer upon this court jurisdiction over either case in which the court would not otherwise have jurisdiction, — notwithstanding the amount in dispute in the consolidated cases is twice the amount in dispute in each case, and is more than $2,000.
"* * * We must, however, say frankly that we think * * * that in the present case the sole question is to whom belongs the income which is sought to be taxed. It appears to us accordingly that the case should be transferred to the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans, pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 19 of 1912, Dart's General Statutes, Section 1427. See State v. Baynard, 203 La. 711, 14 So.2d 611."