Case Name: E. J. Guéringer vs. His Creditors
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1881-11
Citations: 33 La. Ann. 1279
Docket Number: No. 8043
Parties: E. J. Guéringer vs. His Creditors.
Judges: Mr. Justice Fenner recuses himself, having been of counsel.
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 33
Pages: 1279–1283

Head Matter:
No. 8043.
E. J. Guéringer vs. His Creditors.
In the additional delay granted the Appellant to file the Transcript, the last two days not being legal days should not be counted, and he is in time if he files the Transcript on the first legal day thereafter.
This Court will not pass upon objections to the admissibility of evidence, if the Transcript does not show that the Court below ruled upon the objections and the ruling was properly excepted to for review.
The wife, as individual creditor of her husband, cannot compete with the partnership creditors of an insolvent firm of which he is a partner, in the distribution of the partnership assets. The fact that the other co-partners had retired from the firm and that the husband alone asked for a respite and made a surrender, does not alter the principle.
The partnership creditors share equally with the individual creditors in the individual assets.
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the parish of Orleans. Monroe, J.
Chas. 8. Bice for Mrs. Guéringer, Opponent and Appellant:
First — The creditors, having forced a surrender byE. J. Guéringer; having proved their claims as debts of him, personally; having elected a syndic as his syndic; having caused the property to he surrendered as his, and the syndic having sold the same as Ms, and filed an account for. a distribution of his assets, to which the creditors have made no objections, cannot, at tMs stage of the case, claim these proceedings to be the cessto 6o«o-rum of E. J. Gneringer & Co.
Second — The facts, being as recited in Eb. 1, above, the creditors cannot, at the same time, claim the proceeds and deny the title by which they are brought into court.
TMrd — The rents and proceeds of the insolvent’s real estate, amounting to §1752.80, are by law devoted to the pro rata payment of all Ms debts.
Fourth — The opponent ought to share, not only in said rents and revenues, but also in the proceeds of her insolvent husband’s mercantile assets.
Breaux & Hall for the Syndic, Appellee :
•“ Partnership assets are a trust fund for partnership creditors, who must he paid before the partners, and so their creditors, can touch anything.” 2 An. 87, 810; 3 An. 189, 319; 5 3ST. S. 629, 568; C. C. 2823 (2794); 12 La. 370; 13 La. 279; 2 E. 453; 11 E. 130.
Partnership effects are privileged for partnership debts. 3 La. 497; 17 La. 596; 6 An. 771.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Todd, J.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is upon two grounds:
1. That there was no order for the appeal.
2. That the transcript was filed too late.
Eirst. We find from our examination of the record, that there was an order of appeal regular in every respect.
Second. On the 16th December, 1880, the appellant applied for and was granted a delay of ten days for filing the transcript. The 9th day, the 25th, was Christmas; the next, the 26th, was Sunday. It was filed on the 27th of December, and was in time, the tWo last days of the delay not being legal days, should not be counted. 24 An. 333.
The motion to dismiss is, therefore, denied.