Case Name: Kentgen & Co. v. C. D. Jordan
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1860-04
Citations: 15 La. Ann. 219
Docket Number: 
Parties: Kentgen & Co. v. C. D. Jordan.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 15
Pages: 219–220

Head Matter:
Kentgen & Co. v. C. D. Jordan.
The evidence of one witness, who simply declares that an account sued on, and over five hundred dollars, is correct, without giving his reasons for this assertion, is not sufficient to authorize the confirmation of a default.
I PPEAL from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Eggleston. J.
G. & C. E. Schmidt, for plaintiffs.
J. <& E. Bermudez, for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
Duffel, J.
The defendant is appellant from a judgment by default made final.
The default was confirmed on the presumption created by Article 3G0 of the Code of Practice, corroborated by the following- testimony : " J. M. Wagner, for plaintiff, sworn, says : " the account sued upon is correct." Another witness was examined; but his testimony not having any reference to the account sued on, does not affect the decision of the cause.
The simple declaration, " the account sued upon is correct," was, in our opinion, insufficient to authorize the confirmation of the default; the witness should have given the reasons of his conclusion.
We will not, however, under the circumstances of the case, nonsuit the plaintiff, but we will remand the cause, in order to give him the benefit of his default.
It is, therefore, ordered, that the judgment of the District Courjxbe reversed, and that the suit be remanded to the Court a qua,, to bo proceeded in according to law; the appellee to pay the costs of the appeal.