Case Name: PEARCE et al. v. HAAS et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1908-11-30
Citations: 122 La. 376
Docket Number: No. 17,126
Parties: PEARCE et al. v. HAAS et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 122
Pages: 375–377

Head Matter:
(47 South. 687.)
No. 17,126.
PEARCE et al. v. HAAS et al.
(Nov. 30, 1908.)
1. Appeal and Ebbob (§ 380*) — Appeal Bond —Subeties—Competency.
A necessary party to an appeal is an incompetent surety on an appeal bond.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. § 2024; Dec. Dig. § 380.*]
2.Evidence (§ 55*) — Presumptions—Identity oe Person.
A presumption of identity of person arises from identity of name.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Evidence, Cent. Dig. § 75; Dec. Dig. § 55.*]
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides; Wilbur Eisk Blackman, Judge.
Action by Edward W. Pearce and others against Samuel Haas and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal, and defendants move to dismiss the same.
Appeal dismissed.
Lionel Alfred Goudeau and Thadeus Amans Carter, for appellants. Robert P. Hunter & Sons and Lewis & Lewis, for appellees.

Opinion:
LAND, J.
This suit was brought by Edward W. Pearce, C. Oscar Pearce, and other heirs of Mrs. C. L. Pearce to recover certain real estate sold in the succession of their grandfather. There was judgment in favor of the defendants on their plea of estoppel based on allegations that the said Mrs. C. L. Pearce had consented to the succession-sale and had subsequently sold her entire interest in the succession, including the land in dispute, to John A. Haas, one of the defendants.
Plaintiffs asked for and were -granted a devolutive appeal and the bond was fixed at §100. Edward W. Pearce as principal, and C. Oscar Pearce as surety, executed an appeal bond in the sum of §100 conditioned for the prosecution, of his appeal and the payment of whatever judgment might be rendered against him.
Defendants have moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that C. Oscar Pearce, one of the plaintiffs in this suit, and one of the appellees before this court, was not competent to sign the appeal bond as surety.
Appellant has made no appearance by counsel in this court, and there is no suggestion that the surety on the appeal bond is not one of the plaintiffs in the suit A presumption of identity of person arises from identity of name. 16 Oyc. 1055.
In the well-considered case of Barrow et al. v. Clack, 45 La. Ann. 478, 12 South. 631, it was held that a necessary party to an appeal, either as appellee or appellant, is not competent to sign an appeal bond as surety.
It is therefore ordered that the appeal herein be dismissed.