Case Name: Henry Burns v. Thomas Naughton
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1872-07
Citations: 24 La. Ann. 476
Docket Number: No. 280
Parties: Henry Burns v. Thomas Naughton.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 476–477

Head Matter:
No. 280.
Henry Burns v. Thomas Naughton.
An appeal will not be dismissed because a copy of the petition of appeal lias been sent up with the record in place of the original. ,
A third holder of a mortgage note under indorsement must show an authentic transfer before he can legally obtain an order of seizure and sale of the property mortgaged.
from the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, parish of Ouachita. Bay, J.
Morrison & Farmer, for plaintiff and appellee. J. & 8. F. MeFnery and Stubbs S'Gobb, for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
Taliaferro, J.
The defendant appeals from an order of seizure and sale rendered by the Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial .District decreeing the sale of certain mortgaged property belonging to the defendant. The ground upon which the appeal is predicated is, that authentic evidence was not produced before the judge to establish the transfer to the plaintiff of the note upon which the mortgage is alleged to be founded. There is a motion to dismiss the appeal for the reason that a copy of the petition of appeal was sent up iu the transcript, the appellee contending that the original act should have accompanied the record, and refers to several articles of the Code of Practice to sustain this position.
There is no more reason why the written act constituting the petition of appeal and filed as an original act should appear in propria forma before the appellate court instead of a duly certified copy of it, than that the original petition in a suit, or any other original paper of a suit, should be transmitted instead of a certified copy of such original. The terms used in the articles of the Code of Practice to which we are referred, might perhaps authorize the transmission of the original petition of appeal with the transcript; but that it is imperatively required that it should be so transmitted we do not admit. The purpose of 'the lawmaker, we conclude, would in this regard be as substantially complied with by the transmission in the record of a duly authenticated copy of the petition of appeal as by the transmission of the original act itself.
The motion to dismiss is overruled.