Case ID: la-ann_24/html/0259-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Taliaferro, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 3826.
    John G. Scott v. John F. Goodrich.
    The signature of the judge to the minutes of the oourt is only his attestation of their correctness, and can not he regarded as his signature to a final judgment.
    An appeal taken from a judgment attested in this way will be dismissed on motion because it is not signed by the judge.
    from the Thirteenth. Judicial District Court, parish of Tensas. Hough, J.
    
      Aroni & JOeiuis, for plaintiff and appellee. Farrar ds lieevcs, for defendant and appellant.
   Taliaferro, J.

There is a motion to dismiss this appeal on the ground that there was no final judgment rendered in the court below from which au appeal can be taken, and no judgment ax>pearing in the record dismissing plaintiff’s action.

The order sustaining the exception to the jurisdiction of the court and dismissing the action is followed by an order of appeal granted on motion in open court on the part of the plaintiff, to which is immediately subjoined, after the words “ minutes signed,” the official signature of the judge. We think the signature of the judge was appended merely as attesting the correctness of the minutes of the court, and is not to bo regarded as his signature to a final judgment. The motion must therefore prevail, and it is accordingly ordered that the appeal he dismissed at costs of appellant.