Case Name: James Reid v. Louisiana State Lottery Company
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1877-05
Citations: 29 La. Ann. 388
Docket Number: No. 4692
Parties: James Reid v. Louisiana State Lottery Company.
Judges: ■Wyly, J. I dissent, and will file my reasons hereafter.
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 29
Pages: 388–396

Head Matter:
No. 4692.
James Reid v. Louisiana State Lottery Company.
The oral or written declarations of an alleged co-conspirator will not be admitted in evidence, until the conspiracy itself has been proved. Nor are such declarations to bo received against another alleged co-conspirator, after the object of the conspiracy has been achieved.
APPEAL from the Superior District Court, parish of Orleans. Hawkins, J. Trial by jury.
Hace, Foster & F. T. Merrick, and Finney & Miller, for plaintiff and appellants.
Joseph P. Hornor, B. S. Bennee, A. A. Atocha, and Semmes $ Mott, for defendant.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Ludbling, C. J.
The motion to dismiss this appeal is based on a defect in the certificate of the clerk — the want of his signature. The omission appears to have been supplied since the filing of the motion, and the appéllant has asked for an order to compel the clerk to sign the certificate nunc pro tunc, if it be considered that the clerk improperly signed the certificate without the permission of the court. This order could be applied for and could bo granted at any time before trial, and, as the certificate is now signed by the clerk, to grant the order would be doing a vain thing. It is ordered that the motion be refused.