Case Name: State ex rel. S. D. Dixon, tutor, v. Judge of the Fifth District Court, parish of Orleans
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1874-02
Citations: 26 La. Ann. 119
Docket Number: No. 4973
Parties: State ex rel. S. D. Dixon, tutor, v. Judge of the Fifth District Court, parish of Orleans.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 119–120

Head Matter:
No. 4973.
State ex rel. S. D. Dixon, tutor, v. Judge of the Fifth District Court, parish of Orleans.
A judgment signed in vacation is no judgment. Being no judgment, no appeal could be taken from it. Delator lias the right to see that the judgment of which he complains he regularly signed.
Application for a mandamus the of the Fifth District Court, parish of Orleans.
Forman, for relator.
The judgment was rendered on the twenty-fifth of June. It was signed on the tenth of July.

Opinion:
Morgan, J.
Belator, on the opening of the court in November, asked the judge to sign the judgment again, which he refused to do.
^ This rule >is taken upon him to show cause why he should not be ordered to do so. He has made no answer.
The judgment having been signed in vacation is, under the authority of Hernandez v. James, 25 An. 483, no judgment. Being no judgment, no appeal could be taken from it. Belator had the right to see that the judgment of which he complains should be regularly signed.
The rule is made absolute.