Case Name: STATE ex rel. MARRERO, Dist. Atty., v. PATTERSON, Sheriff and Ex Officio Tax Collector
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1913-10-20
Citations: 134 La. 875
Docket Number: No. 20,065
Parties: STATE ex rel. MARRERO, Dist. Atty., v. PATTERSON, Sheriff and Ex Officio Tax Collector.
Judges: PROVOSTY, X, absent on account of illness, takes no part on the merits.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 134
Pages: 875–879

Head Matter:
(64 South. 805.)
No. 20,065.
STATE ex rel. MARRERO, Dist. Atty., v. PATTERSON, Sheriff and Ex Officio Tax Collector.
(Oct. 20, 1913.
On the Merits, March 16, 1914.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
1. Appeal and Error (§ 365*) — -Devolutive Appeal — Bond.
An appeal granted as suspensive may be maintained as devolutive, where bond has been given by the appellant in the sum fixed by the court.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. §§ 1784, 1977-1988; Dec. Dig. § 365.*]
2. Appeal and Error (§ 337*) — Dismissal— Premature Filins oe Transcript.
The filing of the transcript in the Supreme Court two days before the return day is no ground for the dismissal of the appeal.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. §§ 1877, 1878; Dec. Dig. § 337.*]
On the Merits.
3.Appeal and Error (§ 753*) — Dismissal oe Appeal.
“The appellant, who does not rely wholly or in part on a statement of facts, an exception to the judges’ 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 especially such errors as he alleges; otherwise his appeal shall be rejected.” Code of Practice, art. 897.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. §§ 3086-3089; Dec. Dig. § 753.*]
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Charles; Prentice E. Edrington, Judge.
Action by the State, on the relation of L. H. Marrero, Jr., District Attorney of Twenty-Eighth Judicial District, against James S. Patterson, Sheriff and Tax Collector. Judgment for relator, and defendant appeals.
Dismissed.
Fred A. Middleton, of New Orleans, for appellant. L. H. Marrero, Jr., of New Orleans, for appellee.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
LAND, J.
Judgment was rendered below decreeing that certain sureties on the bond of the defendant were not good and sufficient, and ordering him to furnish, within the time required by law, bond with good and solvent surety as required by law. The judgment was rendered and signed on June 10, 1913.
On motion of the defendant, he was granted a suspensive appeal from the judgment, returnable on June 30, 1913, upon his furnishing bond in the sum of $100. The bond was furnished, and the transcript of appeal was filed in the Supreme Court on June 28, 1913. On the same day the district attorney filed a motion to dismiss the appeal on the ground that Act 14 of 1878 prohibits a suspensive appeal in such cases, and on the further ground that the transcript was filed two days before the return day.
No briefs have been filed in this case, and we might well treat the motion to dismiss as having been abandoned.
Section 2 of Act 14 of 1878 does not absolutely prohibit a suspensive appeal in a case like this, but allows such an appeal where the officer, whose bond has been declared insufficient, furnishes a new bond approved by the proper officers and by the judge within ten days after the rendition of the judgment.
The motion to dismiss does not negative the furnishing of a new bond by the defendant within the time prescribed by law.
If, however, no suspensive appeal lies, the appeal may be maintained as devolutive. See Mestier v. Chevalier Pavement Co., 108 La. 562, 32 South. 520; Pelletier v. State Nat. Bank, 112 La. 564, 36 South. 592. The premature filing of the transcript furnishes no ground in law or reason for the dismissal of the appeal.
It is therefore ordered that the motion to dismiss be overruled.