Case Name: John H. Smith vs. Orleans Railroad Company et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1882-12
Citations: 34 La. 1160
Docket Number: No. 8685
Parties: John H. Smith vs. Orleans Railroad Company et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 34
Pages: 1160–1162

Head Matter:
No. 8685.
John H. Smith vs. Orleans Railroad Company et al.
• Where an appeal is dismissed, on the ground of material deficiency or incompleteness of the transcript, the Court on an application for a rehearing is authorized to observe that the judgment appealed from not having been signed, the application for an appeal was premature and can maintain its previous ruling, for that additional reason. Rehearing refused.
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Lamms, J.
Andrew J. Murphy, and F. W. Balcer, for Plaintiff and Appellee,
Ohas. Lou,que, for Defendant aud Appellant.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss,
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Todd, J.
Among the other grounds set forth in the motion for the dismissal of the appeal, we find the following:
That the transcript does not contain the motion and order of appeal of May 23d, 1882, and the original answer of defendants.
It appears that on the 13th of April, the defendant applied in'the court below for an.appeal from the judgment therein rendered, which application was refused.
Thereupon, a mandamus was applied for to this Court, to compel the said Judge to grant the appeal. The mandamus issued, and in due course was made peremptory. We must presume that the District Judge complied with this order, and granted the appeal, in the absence of any suggestion to the contrary.
But neither the order of appeal nor the original.answer of the defendants is in the record. And although there was sufficient .time, after the filing of the motion to dismiss the appeal, for the appellant to have corrected the record and supplied the omissions, yet no such application has been made, and no answer ever has been made on the brief of the appellee's counsel on the motion to dismiss.
In the absence of these important documents, we cannot entertain the appeal, and that they are not in the record, must under the circumstances stated, be attributed to the fault of the appellant.
Appeal dismissed.