Case Name: LAMPTON REALTY CO. v. KERR
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1920-06-10
Citations: 154 La. 843
Docket Number: No. 24031
Parties: LAMPTON REALTY CO. v. KERR.
Judges: By Division C, composed of OVERTON, ST. PAUL, and THOMPSON, JJ.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 154
Pages: 844–852

Head Matter:
(98 South. 266)
No. 24031.
LAMPTON REALTY CO. v. KERR.
(June 10, 1920.
On the Merits, Nov. 26, 1923.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
I.Appeal and error <&wkey;*390 — Omission of appellant to make oath as to sufficiency of bond may be corrected before judgment.
Omission of an appellant to make oath that the surety on the bond of appeal, is woi'th the amount for which he is bound as required by Act No. 112 of 1916, § 4, may be corrected in the district court under section 3 at any time prior to judgment if notice shall be served on appellant that the bond is insufficient.
2. Appeal and error &wkey;>395 — Failure to make affidavit as to solvency of surety on appeal bond held not ground for dismissal of appeal.
'That appellant has failed to make oath that the surety on the .bond of appeal is worth the amount for which' he is bound does not constitute a ground for dismissal of the appeal, in view of Act No. 112 of 1916, § 9, providing that no appeal shall be dismissed for error as to the bond until appellant shall have failed to correct it.
3. Appeal and error <g=3'656(l) — Supreme Court cannot order missing affidavit on appeal bond to be made and filed.
It is not within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to order a missing affidavit as to the solvency of a surety on appeal bond to be made and filed.
On the Merits.
4. Logs and logging <@=»3(I0) — Deed to standing “timber” held not to include material for pulp and charcoal.
A deed to standing timber estimated at a certain number of feet for trees measuring 12 inches in diameter and 24 inches above the ground held not to include smaller trees, treetops, lightwood, pine knots, and other timber by-products suitable for paper pulp and charcoal, . the word “timber” meaning such as are suitable to be made into marketable and commercial lumber.
[Ed. Note. — For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, First and Second Series, Timber.)
Appeal from Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Washington; Prentiss B. Carter, Judge.
Action by the Lampton Realty Company against J. D. Kerr. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
Motion to dismiss appeal denied, and judgment reversed and rendered.
Ott & Johnson, of Franklinton, for appellant.
Benjamin M. Miller, of Covington, and A. Sidney Burns, of Ponchatoula, for appellee.

Opinion:
By the WHOLE COURT as then constituted.
SOMMERVILLE, .7.
J. E. Kerr, appellee, moves to dismiss the appeal herein on the ground that the appeal bond is not legal for the reason that the appellant, or any one in its behalf, has not made oath that he has been informed and believes that the surety on the bond of appeal is worth, over and above such suretyship obligation, in assets that can be subjected to levy under execution, the amount for which said surety bound himself in the bond, and the clerk of court for Washington parish was by law expressly prohibited from accepting or filing the bond in the absence of such affidavit, all of which should have been done under section 4 of Act 112 of 1916,-p. 242. '
The error or omission complained of may be corrected in the' district court under section 3 of the act at any time prior to judgment, if the adverse party, or any other party in interest, shall cause to be served upon plaintiff through the proper officer for service a notice that such adverse party, or the party in interest, claims that the bond furnished in the proceeding is insufficient either as to form or substance, or of the solvency, or because of the pecuniary insufficiency of the surety or sureties thereon. Hurry v. Hurry, 144 La. 877, 81 South. 378.
The defendant in this cause, the appellee, has apparently faken no proceeding in the district court to complete the bond with 'respect io the matter complained of. But the law does not strike with nullity the bond because of the failure to file the affidavit as to the solvency of the surety. Such omission is not made a ground for dismissal of an appeal. White v. Maison Blanche Co., 142 La. 265, 76 South. 708.
On the contrary, in section 9 it is provided:
'That no appeal shall be dismissed, nor shall any writ, or other process be set aside on account of any error in the amount of the bond, or for any inaccuracy or omission in the bond, or for the insufficiency of any surety, or sureties, on said bond, until the party furnishing' such bond shall have failed to correct the error, inaccuracy or omission, or to have furnished supplemental or additional bond, or surety or sureties, as herein above provided."
It is not within the jurisdiction of this court to order the missing affidavit as to the solvency of the surety to be made and filed; and the court is forbidden to dismiss the appeal for such omission in the bond.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is denied.