Case ID: la-ann_19/html/0077-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hyman, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 1210
    State of Louisiana v. Doax & Thompson and Edward I. Gay.
    Where there is no principal obligation, there cannot be an accessory one.
    A PPEAL from the District Court, Parish of Iberville, Posey, J.
    
      R. W. Knickerbocker, District Attorney, for the State.
    
      Barrow & Pope, for defendants and appellees.
   Hyman, C. J.

The State is appellant from a judgment dismissing suit brought against defendants, on an appearance bond signed only by Gay, as security for Doax and Thompson. ,

Doax and Thompson, not having signed the bond, are not bound. Neither is Gay bound on the bond, for there cannot be an accessory obligation where there is not a principal one. See 2 Rob. 367, Curtis et al v. Moss.

Let the jiidgment of the District Court be affirmed.