
    No. 8110.
    The State of Louisiana ex rel. Joseph St. Cyr et al. vs. Allen Jumel, State Auditor.
    On Motion to Dismiss.
    Plaintiffs, about seventy persons in number, are pensioners of the State of Louisiana, and claim, by mandamus against the Auditor, the payment to each, of twelve dollars a month. The District Court made the mandamus peremptory, and the State appealed. The Relators moved to dismiss the appeal on the grounds, that the amount of the matter in dispute is not appealable, and that the State has no interest to hinder and delay the execution of its own law, Act of the Legislature of 1S76, No. 61.
    
      Held, that the aggregate amount makes the case appealable, and that the other ground, that the State has no interest, is untenable.
    APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Houston, J.
    
      Isaac 8. Hya/ms and W. W. Handlin, for the Relators and Appellees.
    
      J. G. JEgan, Attorney General, for the State, Appellant.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Levy. J.

The Chief Justice recuses himself, having been consulted as counsel in the case.  