Case Name: Succession of R. H. Woods. On Opposition of Chubbuck et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1878-05
Citations: 30 La. 1002
Docket Number: No. 6848
Parties: Succession of R. H. Woods. On Opposition of Chubbuck et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 30
Pages: 1002–1007

Head Matter:
No. 6848.
Succession of R. H. Woods. On Opposition of Chubbuck et al.
Where, in consequence of an agreement between the attorneys of a succession, and’ of its opposing creditors, entered into to prevent the record of appeal from being-too bulky, certain necessary papers have boon accidentally omitted, a writ of cerliorari will be alloyed to supply them.
No loss suffered by a stockholder, in consequence of a call authorized by the charter of the corporation, made upon each stockholder to pay a proportion of the price due on his stock, will give rise to a claim for damages against the directors, of the corporation.
The contents of a written promise, or admission can not be proved by parol, until! its destruction, or its loss, and proper efforts to recover it, have been shown.
A stale demand for unliquidated damages on the succession of a deceased, on account of an alleged tort of the deceased, and never made during his life, will1 not be allowed, except on the strictest proof of its justice.
^PPEAL from the Second District Court, parish of Orleans. Tissot,,
E. C. Kelly and Chas. S. Sice for administratrix and appellee.
T. A. Bartletie for opponents and appellants.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court on the motion to dismiss and on the application for a rehearing was delivered by Manning, C. J., and on the merits. by Egan, J.
On Motion to Dismiss.
Manning, O. J.
Hornor & Benedict, acknowledged, creditors on the-account of the representative of this succession, move to dismiss this* appeal for the absence from the record of certain papers which they allege constitute a part of the record, and that they were not parties to the agreement between the attorneys of the succession and of the-opponents specifying what papers should constitute the record.
The papers specified as necessary to make a proper and intelligible-record have been supplied since by a writ of certiorari. The agreement to select such papers out of the mass as would be necessary to present the issue between the opponents and the-suecession was evidently made-to save costs, and to save this court the useless labor of reading numerous documents and proceedings, irrelevant to the issue, and not necessary to a comprehension of the matters for decision. We should be sorry to thwart or discourage so laudable a purpose by inflicting a punishment upon those who conceived it.
The representative of the succession, who had judgment below, does not move the dismissal, and the grounds upon which it is asked' by the movers are insufficient.
The motion to dismiss can not prevail.