Case Name: Successions of P. C. Clairteaux and U. Clairteaux
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1883-12
Citations: 35 La. Ann. 1178
Docket Number: No. 8867
Parties: Successions of P. C. Clairteaux and U. Clairteaux.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 35
Pages: 1178–1180

Head Matter:
No. 8867.
Successions of P. C. Clairteaux and U. Clairteaux.
Appeals will be dismissed where ono bond only was furnished, under motions and orders of appeal from two judgments in two distinct and separate matters.
Widows in necessitous circumstances, who remain in possession of a email farm, in insolvent successions, which was exposed to be sold at any moment, to pay debts and to keep which a keeper would, otherwise, have to he employed, will not be charged for the value of the oooupanoy.
Where the residuo in suoh suoecsslons is insufficient to pay both the privileges and the homestead, the court will abstain from passing critioally on the merits of subsequent claims, to whioh nothing, in any ovout, oould accrue.
APPEAL from the Twenty-sixth District Court, Parish of Jefferson. Hahn, J.
Jos. Brewer for Opponents and Appellants.
Jos. H. Spearing and A. B. Billings for Opponents and Appellants.
G. W. Besangon for the Administratrix.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Bermudez, C. J.
C. A. Philippi & Co., Ferdinand Samuel and Jules Samuel, appeal from judgments dismissing the oppositions which they have respectively filed to the accounts rendered in these two successions.
The administratrices move that the appeal taken by the Samuels be dismissed, among other reasons, because, there being two judgments, there should have been two motions and orders of appeal and two bonds, one in each case, as there were two suits in each succession, and one bond only was furnished.
The oppositions were not consolidated below, to be tried together and determined by one and the same judgment. The order of consolidation was made after judgment. There were two judgments rendered, and two appeals taken. There should have been two bonds given. The appeals of F. and J. Samuel are dismissed