Case Name: Emanuel Blessey & Co. v. New Orleans Oil Factory
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1858-05
Citations: 13 La. Ann. 310
Docket Number: 
Parties: Emanuel Blessey & Co. v. New Orleans Oil Factory.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 13
Pages: 310–311

Head Matter:
Emanuel Blessey & Co. v. New Orleans Oil Factory.
Where the record shows that an answer was .filed on tho samo day that a judgment by default was made final,but no order is shown setting aside'tho default, it will bo presumed that tho answer was filed after the default had been confirmed
APPEAL from the Sixth District Court of New Orleans, Howell, J.
Whitaker Fellows, for plaintiff and appellee.
F. Perin, for defendants.

Opinion:
Spofford, J.
The only complaint of the appellant is that a judgment by default was confirmed against him when an answer had been filed.
There appears a general denial in the record, purporting to have been filed upon the same day that the judgment by default was made final.
But it does not appear that the defendant filed it in open court, or procured the usual order to have the judgment by default set aside.
The presumption, therefore, is that the court did its duty, and that the defendant filed his answer after the judgment by default had been confirmed..
The prayer for damages, we think, should be allowed.
It is, therefore, ordered and decreed, that the judgment appealed from be affirmed, with costs, and forty dollars damages as for a frivolous appeal.