Case ID: la-app_7/html/0655-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "WESTERFIELD, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 11,017
    Orleans
    VITALE v. CHECKER CAB COMPANY, INC.
    (October 17, 1927. Opinion and Decree.)
    
      (Syllabus by the Court)
    ON MOTION TO DISMISS
    1. Louisiana Digest — Appeal—Par. 581.
    No separate appeal lies from a judgment on rule to tax costs. Such judgment is interlocutory, and forms part of judgment on merits, and is reviewable on appeal therefrom.
    
      Appeal from the Civil District Court, Division “A”. Hon. Hugh C. Cage, Judge.
    Action by Mrs. D. Yitale against Checker Cab Company, Inc.
    There was judgment for defendant and plaintiff appealed.
    Appeal dismissed.
    George Piazza, of New Orleans, attorney for plaintiff, appellant.
    P. L. Fourchy, of New Orleans, attorney for defendant, appellee.
   ON MOTION TO DISMISS

WESTERFIELD, J.

Plaintiff has appealed suspensively from a judgment on a rule to tax costs. Defendant moves to dismiss upon the ground that the amount is below the jurisdiction of this court, and the judgment on rule inseparable from the judgment upon the main demand, from which only a devolutive, and not a suspensive appeal, was taken.

The appeal must be dismissed. A judgment upon a rule to tax Costs is not a final judgment. Morries vs. Zeller, 4th Orl. App. 411. It is interlocutory and forms part of the original judgment. It need not be signed. Norries vs. Zeller (supra).

Irreparable injury is not averred and is not present because a suspensive appeal from the original judgment would have suspended the collection of the costs fixed under the rule to tax them. Block vs. Papania, 4th Orl. App. 417. No separate appeal lies from a judgment on rule to tax costs. Iron Works Co. vs. Reuss, 40 La. Ann. 121, 3 South. 500; State ex rel. vs. Lazarus, 40 La. Ann. 856, 5 South. 289.

The appeal will be dismissed.