Case Name: MURPHY OIL CORPORATION v. Cosme GONZALES
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1975-07-08
Citations: 316 So. 2d 175
Docket Number: No. 6871
Parties: MURPHY OIL CORPORATION v. Cosme GONZALES.
Judges: Before SAMUEL, BOUTALL and SCHOTT, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 316
Pages: 175–177

Head Matter:
MURPHY OIL CORPORATION v. Cosme GONZALES.
No. 6871.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
July 8, 1975.
Rehearing Denied Aug. 5, 1975.
Writ Refused Oct. 17, 1975.
Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer & Matthews, Charles Kohlmeyer, Jr. and Dando B. Cellini, New Orleans, for plaintiff-ap-pellee.
Uddo & Gertler, M. H. Gertler, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.
Before SAMUEL, BOUTALL and SCHOTT, JJ.

Opinion:
SCHOTT, Judge.
Defendant has taken a suspensive appeal from a judgment making absolute a rule for possession of premises at 1000 Franklin Avenue in Gretna, Louisiana.
ON MOTION TO DISMISS SUSPEN-SIVE APPEAL
Appellee moved to dismiss the sus-pensive appeal because appellant did not answer the rule under oath pleading an affirmative defense entitling him to retain possession of the premises as required by LSA-C.C.P. Art. 4735. The record supports this position so that the appeal will be dismissed as a suspensive appeal with preservation of the appeal as a devolutive appeal. Ducote v. Callico, 307 So.2d 642 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1974).