Case ID: la_3/html/0446-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Porter, J.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MONROE VS. M'MICKEN.
    Eastern Dist.
    March, 1832.
    APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF WEST FELICIANA.
    The certificate of the clerk, that the record contains a true, full and complete transcript, will not authorise the Supreme Court to examine a case on its merits.
    The appeal will be dismissed, unless it appears that the sum in dispute is of the value of three hundred dollars.
   Porter, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

This cause has been submitted on points, filed by the appellant. The appellee does not appear, either by himself or counsel.

The suit was brought to have the defendant removed from the office of curator of one Reno’s estate. There was judgment against the plaintiff, and he appealed. He has moved to reverse that judgment here, on several grounds.

But we cannot examine them; for on looking into the record we find it presents two defects, for which the appeal must be dismissed.

In the first place, the record has one of those certificates from the clerk, of being “ a true, full, and complete transcript of the record,” which we have so often decided does not authorise this court to examine a case on the merits. It would seem, this was a matter of practice that could not be learned by suitors in our courts.

Again it does not appear that the succession which the curator administers, is of the value of three hundred dollars. Louisiana Code, 1152.

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