Case ID: la-ann_12/html/0410-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Buchanan, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sarah Jacobs v. S. Levy.
    It is a sufficient compliance with Art. 72 of the Constitution, for the Judge to state in his decree that, “ after hearing evidence and argument of counsel for the reasons assigned in open court, it is adjudged and decreed, &c.”
    APPEAL from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Augustin, J.
    
      Wooldridge & Lemly, for plaintiff.
    
      B. O. Elliott, for defendant and appellaht.
   Buchanan, J.

The defendant is appellant from a judgment condemning him to pay one hundred and fifty dollars damages for a very gross slander of the chastity of plaintiff, who is a married woman, and whose behavior is proved to be correct

The defendant relies in this court entirely on the want of a statement of reasons in the written judgment of the District Court.

The judgment reads as follows: “ After hearing evidence and argument of counsel, for the reasons assigned in open court, it is adjudged and decreed,” &c.

We think this satisfies the requirement of the Article 12 of the Constitution of the State, that Judges shall “ in all cases adduce the reasons on which their judgment is founded.”

Judgment affirmed, with costs.