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Opinion released March 24, 2000

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 99-CC-3598 METAIRIE BANK AND TRUST V. PARADISE LANDSCAPE, INC. PER CURIAM*
Metairie Bank & Trust Company ("Metairie Bank") filed the instant suit in First City Court for the City of New Orleans, against defendant, Paradise Landscape, Inc. ("Paradise"), seeking recovery on a promissory note in the amount of $10,005.00. Paradise filed a reconventional demand, alleging Metairie Bank refused to cash a $5,000.00 cashier's check drawn on a Hibernia National Bank account made payable to Paradise. As a result, Paradise alleges it was unable to pay its employees to move certain equipment out of the path of an approaching hurricane, causing it to suffer approximately $70,000.00 in damages. Subsequently, Paradise filed a motion to transfer the entire suit to the district court pursuant to La. Code Civ. P. art. 4845(B),1 on the ground that its reconventional demand was compulsory in nature and exceeded the jurisdictional limit

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Johnson, J., not on panel. Rule IV, Part II,

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