Case ID: la_161/html/0269-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "O’NIELL, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(108 So. 478)
    No. 26290.
    SLADOVICH et al. v. EUREKA HOMESTEAD SOCIETY.
    (March 29, 1926.
    Rehearing Denied May 3, 1926.)
    
      (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
    
    1. Judgment <&wkey;407(4) — Petition to annul judgment held to state no cause of action, where every issue tendered by petition was presented by plaintiff’s appeal from such judgment.
    Exception of no cause of action held properly sustained in suit to annul judgment, .where every issue tendered by plaintiff’s petition was presented by their appeal from judgment which they sought to annul.
    2. Judgment &wkey;>407(4) — Party cannot sue to annul judgment rendered against him for a cause for which it may be annulled on appeal which he has taken.
    Party against whom a judgment has been rendered cannot sue to annul judgment for a cause for which it may be annulled on an appeal which he has taken.
    
      Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Wm. H. Byrnes, Jr., Judge.
    Action by George Sladovieh, Sr. and Jr., against tho Eureka Homestead Society. Erom judgment of dismissal, plaintiffs appeal.
    Affirmed.
    George Sladovieh, Sr., of New Orleans, for appellants.
    McOloskey & Benedict, of New Orleans, for appellee.
   O’NIELL, C. J.

This is a suit to annul the judgment that was rendered against the present plaintiffs as defendants in the suit of the Eureka Homestead Society v. George Sladovich, Sr. and Jr. (No. 25914) 108 So. 477, decided to-day. This appeal is from a judgment dismissing the action of nullity on an exception of no cause of action, because the complaints made by the plaintiffs here were being brought up by their appeal from the judgment which they were suing to annul.

The exception of no cause of action was properly sustained. Every issue tendered- by the plaintiffs’ petition in this suit was presented by their appeal from the judgment which they are now suing to annul, and was disposed of by our decree affirming the judgment. The appeal from that judgment was taken and perfected by the filing of an appeal bond before this suit to annul the judgment was filed. A party against whom a judgment has been rendered cannot sue to annul the judgment for a cause for which it may be annulled on an appeal which he has taken. Gilmore v. Gilmore, 9 La. Ann. 204; Taliaferro v. Steele, 14 La. Ann. 656; Blanck v. Speckman, 23 La. Ann. 146; Esterbrook v. Gauche, 27 La. Ann. 36; Payne & Joubert v. Schaeffer-Gaiennie Co., 44 So. 134, 119 La. 382.

The judgment is affirmed. 
      
       Ante, p. 265.