Case ID: mart-os_7/html/0359-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Derbigny, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STRINGER vs. DUNCAN & AL.
    
    Appeal from the court of the parish and city of Nev-Orleans.
    If the record does not shew the facts of the case, and that the appeal was taken for delay only, damages cannot be given.
    
      Preston for the plaintiff, Hawkins for the de fendaots.
   Derbigny, J.

delivered the opinion of the court. This appeal comes up without the testimony taken in the court a quo, either in the shape of a statement of fact or any other. We have, therefore, nothing to do, but to dismiss it.

The plaintiff and appellee has prayed for those damages, which the law authorises this court to grant, in cases of appeals taken for the sake of delay only. But, in order to support such an application, it was his duty to have brought the testimony himself, to enable us to understand the nature of the case, and see whether nothing but delay was intended by the appeal.

It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and de creed, that the appeal be dismissed with costs.