Case ID: la-app_7/html/0409-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ELLIOTT, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. -
    First Circuit
    TEN DAY GROCER CO., INC. v. SMOOT & CO.
    (Feb. 15, 1928. Opinion and Decree.)
    
      (Syllabus by the Editor)
    
    1. Louisiana Digest — Appeal—Par. 375.
    Where order for devolutive appeal was obtained directing citation on the appellee, failure of sheriff to make citation will not be ground for dismissal of case in the Court of Appeal but merely cause the case to be remanded for proper citation according to law under Code of Practice Articles 581, 582, 583 and 584.
    Appeal from the District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa. Hon. Columbus Reid, Judge.
    Action by Ten Day Grocer Co., Inc., against J. E. Smoot & Co., Inc.
    There was judgment for defendant and plaintiff appealed.
    Case remanded.
    Rownd & Warner, Hammond, attorneys for ¡plaintiff, appellant.
    Kemp & Buck, Amite, attorneys for defendant, appellee.
   ELLIOTT, J.

J. E. Smoot & Co., Inc., moves to dismiss the appeal herein on the ground that no citation has issued or been served on appellee as the law requires.

It appears from the record that plaintiff obtained an order for a suspensive and devolutive appeal on January 18th, 1927, the day the judgment was signed. This order does nqt direct that the appellee be cited. No bond appears to have been given under it, and so far as the record shows, nothing was done under it.

Another order for a devolutive appeal was obtained on November 7th, 1927. This order directs that the appellee be cited according to law, and an appeal bond was given under it, but it does not appear that the appellee was cited to appear and answer the appeal.

As the order directs that the appellee be cited and as nothing indicates that the failure to do so is chargeable to appellant, the appeal will not be dismissed, but instead, the record is ordered remanded to the lower court in order that the appellee may be cited as the law provides. C. P. Art. 581, 582, 583, 584.