Case Name: E. Hiestand v. City of New Orleans
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1859-02
Citations: 14 La. Ann. 137
Docket Number: 
Parties: E. Hiestand v. City of New Orleans.
Judges: Spoitokd, J., took no part in the decision of this cause.
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 137–139

Head Matter:
E. Hiestand v. City of New Orleans.
An assignment of errors in the Supreme Court, under Art. 897 of the Code of Practice, is not necessary when the case was decided in the court below on an exception to the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s petition.
The plaintiff is not bound to administer proof of the allegations of his petition which are not denied by ■ the answer.
PPEAL from the Sixth District Court of New Orleans, Howell, J.
Plaintiff in pro. per. J. J. Michel, for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
Spofford, J.
The defendant has appealed from the judgment of the District Court in favor of the plaintiff.
There is neither evidence, statement of facts, nor bill of exceptions in the record, and the case was not tried by a jury.
In such cases the rule of practice is imperative. " The appellant who does not rely, wholly or in part, on a statement of facts, an exception to the Judge's opinion or special verdict, to sustain his appeal, but on an error of law appearing on the face of the record, shall be allowed to allege such error, if within ten days after the record is brought up he files in the Supreme Court a written paper stating specially such errors as he alleges; otherwise, his appeal shall be rejected." C. P.897.
It being too late to file an assignment of errors now, and none having been filed, the motion to dismiss must prevail.
Appeal dismissed.