Case Name: FRANEK v. BREWSTER; JACOBS v. SLADOVICH; INTERSTATE TRUST & BANKING CO. v. SUCCESSION OF FRANEK
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1915-02-23
Citations: 141 La. 1031
Docket Number: No. 21030
Parties: FRANEK v. BREWSTER. JACOBS v. SLADOVICH. INTERSTATE TRUST & BANKING CO. v. SUCCESSION OF FRANEK.
Judges: LECHE, J., takes no part.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 141
Pages: 1031–1049

Head Matter:
(76 South. 187)
No. 21030.
FRANEK v. BREWSTER. JACOBS v. SLADOVICH. INTERSTATE TRUST & BANKING CO. v. SUCCESSION OF FRANEK.
(Feb. 23, 1915.
On the Merits, June 5, 1916.
On Rehearing, June 30, 1917.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
1. Appeal and Error <&wkey;64&wkey;REOORD — Dismissal.
A motion to dismiss an appeal because clerk of civil district court, instead of copying documentary evidence into three copies of transcript, sent up the original documents, will he denied, where omission was not imputable to appellants or their counsel, and they promptly took proper steps to correct the error, and certiorari issued to compel clerk to properly transfer documentary evidence.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. §§ 2788, 2829.]
On the Merits.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
2. Appeal and Error t&wkey;4 — Injunction <&wkey;> 27 — Arrest op Proceedings — Executory Process.
The only remedy afforded for arresting ex-ecutory proceedings on grounds not disclosed by the record is by injunction. The process afforded the defendant for making the complaint that there' was not sufficient authentic evidence to warrant the issuance of executory proceedings is an appeal from the order of seizure and sale.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. §§ 8-21; Injunction, Cent. Dig. §§ 50, 51, 53.]
3. Mortgages <&wkey;417 — Collection—Executory Proceedings.
When a promissory note is made payable to the order of the maker and indorsed by him, and that fact is recited in the authentic act of mortgage securing the payment of the note, possession of the note is authority for instituting executory prticeedings to collect it.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Mortgages, Cent. Dig. §§ 1227-1236.]
4. Courts &wkey;>39 — Plea to Jurisdiction.
No judgment can be rendered against a defendant whose plea to the jurisdiction of the court ratione personae has been maintained, unless an appeal is taken from the judgment maintaining the plea and dismissing the suit against such defendant.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Courts, Cent. Dig. §§ 152-156.]
5. Mortgages <&wkey;122 — Executory Proceedings — Interest.
When it is recited in a promissory note and in an authentic act of mortgage securing its payment that the note bears interest, although the rate of interest and date from which it runs he not stipulated, the court is authorized to include in the order of seizure and sale in executory proceedings the collection of interest at 5 per cent, per annum from the date of the note.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Mortgages, Cent. Dig. §§ 225-227.]
6. Executors and Administrators &wkey;>184— Succession — Right op surviving Wife-Remarriage.
After a widow has married again, she is not entitled to demand and receive in her own right from the succession of her deceased husband the $1,000, of which, as a widow in necessitous circumstances, she was entitled to the usufruct during her widowhood.,
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Executors and Administrators, Cent. Dig. §§ 694, 702, 704.]
On Rehearing.
(Additional Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
7. Executors and Administrators <&wkey;261— Succession — Claim of Minor Child — Preference.
A -widow, as the administratrix of her husband’s'" succession, represents all the creditors, including the homestead claim of his minor child, which is to be paid to the minor in preference over all other claims against proceeds of sale of property in executory proceedings.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Executors and Administrators, Cent. Dig. §§ 944-974.]
O’Niell, J., dissenting.
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Fred D. King, Judge.
Suit by Joseph Franek against Harry C. Brewster and his attorneys, Merrick, Lewis & Schwarz, for the cancellation of a note and for the allowance of a credit, consolidated with executory proceedings by Thomas N. Jacobs against Mrs. George Sladovich, and-with petition by Franek making Jacobs a party defendant in the original suit, and executory proceedings by the Interstate Trust & Banking Company against the succession of Joseph Franek, consolidated with the former suit, wherein the administratrix filed a petition in the original suit asking that the Interstate Trust & Banking Company appear and answer original and supplemental petitions, which petition was adopted by Antonio Greco, purchaser at the sheriff’s sale. Suit of Joseph Franek dismissed as to defendant Brewster, and judgment for succession of Joseph F. Franek, and the Interstate Trust & Banking Company and Jacobs appeal.
Judgment annulled, and the demands of the administratrix rejected in part, and adjudication-as to the purchaser Greco confirmed.
See, also, 71 'South. 213, 139 La. 46.
Walter S. Lewis, of New Orleans, for appellants. H. C. Cage and Theo. Cotonio, both of New Orleans, for appellee succession of Franek.

Opinion:
O'NIELL, J.
The appellee has moved to dismiss the appeal because the clerk of the . civil district court, instead of copying certain documentary evidence into the three copies of the transcript, has sent up the original documents.
On the petition of the appellants, we have issued writs of certiorari, directing the clerk of the civil district court to complete the transcript of appeal in triplicate, by transcribing the original documents into each copy of the record.
It does not appear that the clerk's error of sending up the original documents and omitting to transcribe them into the triplicate transcripts of appeal is imputable to the appellants or their counsel; and as they have promptly taken the proper steps to correct the error, there is no good cause for dismissing their appeal.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is overruled.