Case Name: State ex rel. F. A. Luling v. Judge Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Charles
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1872-05
Citations: 24 La. Ann. 333
Docket Number: No. 3915
Parties: State ex rel. F. A. Luling v. Judge Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Charles.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 333–333

Head Matter:
No. 3915.
State ex rel. F. A. Luling v. Judge Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Charles.
"Where the return clay for an appeal has been inadvertently fixed on a non-judicial day (Sunday) the appellant is entitled to the whole of the next day to file his appeal.
A transcript of appeal is considered as 'filed in the appellate court from the moment that it has been deposited with the clerk, although the formal indorsement thereon was not written until the following day.
from the Fourth District Court, parish of St. Charles.
W. O. Denegre, for relator. B. Beauvais, Judge, for respondent.

Opinion:
Wyly, J.
This is a proceeding by mandamus to compel the Judge of the Fourth District Court, parish of St. Charles, to execute a judgment, on the ground that the appellant had failed to file the transcript of appeal within the legal delay.
It appears that the return day, as extended, was the twenty-eighth of February, which was Sunday. The next day, between six and half-past six in the evening, the attorney of the appellant deposited in the clerk's office the transcript, but the clerk being absent the filing was not indorsed thereon till the succeeding day.
The transcript being deposited in the proper office, within office hours, must be regarded as filed, although the formal indorsement thereof was not written till the next day.
Tlie return day occurring on Sunday, we think the appellant was entitled to the whole of the next day to file his appeal.
In view of the facts stated, we think the judge did not err in declining to execute the judgment pending on a suspensive appeal in this court.
Let the mandamus be disallowed and the petition be dismissed at the cost of the relator.