Case Name: LAWTON v. PACIFIC COAST CASUALTY CO.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1919-01-06
Citations: 144 La. 664
Docket Number: No. 21724
Parties: LAWTON v. PACIFIC COAST CASUALTY CO.
Judges: DAWKINS, J., takes no part.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 144
Pages: 663–671

Head Matter:
(81 South. 219)
No. 21724.
LAWTON v. PACIFIC COAST CASUALTY CO.
(Jan. 6, 1919.
On the Merits, March 3, 1919.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
1. Appeal and Error <&wkey;798 — Motion to Dismiss — Parties in Interest.
Where an exception of prematurity is sustained as to one of two defendants, and judgment is thereafter rendered on the merits specifically against the other, who appeals therefrom, the defendant first mentioned, not being a party to that judgment, has no interest in dismissing the appeal so far as he is concerned, since he is not at all concerned.
On the Merits.
2. Insurance &wkey;>531 — Accident Insurance —Exceptions in Policy — “Business op
For the purposes of a policy of insurance against accident which excludes from a certain class a person insured who is injured while actually riding in or upon a conveyance drawn by horse power and “used for any business or any work whatsoever at the time of the accident,” a farm wagon, in which a sold product of the farm is conveyed to a railroad for shipment to the purchaser is still engaged in the “business of the farm” . while on its return thereto, and the owner, riding therein, and meeting with an accident, is within the exclusion.
Appeal from Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of West Carroll; John R. McIntosh, Judge.
Action by Fannie M. Lawton against the Pacific Coast Casualty Company and another. Judgment for defendant named, and plaintiff appeals.
Motion to dismiss denied, and judgment affirmed.
John M. Munholland, of Monroe, for appellant.
Kobert O. Randle, of Monroe, for appellee.
Hudson, Potts, Bernstein & Sholars, of Monroe, for defendant National Surety Co.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
MONROE, C. J.
Plaintiff sues as beneficiary of a policy of insurance taken out by her husband in the Pacific Coast Casualty Company, a foreign corporation, and prays for judgment against that company and also against the National Surety Company, as the surety of the company first named.
The casualty company filed an answer admitting that it owes plaintiff $100, and alleging that it had made a legal tender of the same. The surety company filed exceptions of "prematurity" and no cause of action. The exception of prematurity was sustained by judgment rendered on October 6, 1915, and entered on the minutes of the court, but not written out and signed. On November 11th following there was judgment on the merits in favor of plaintiff "in the sum of $135 against" the defendant "in this suit, said judgment covering the liability on said insurance and the costs of the court up to the date of said legal tender made by" the defendant "herein," and on the same day an order was entered granting an appeal to plaintiff and defendant, of which plaintiff availed herself by filing a bond for appeal "from the judgment rendered on the 11th day of November 1915," and thereafter lodging the transcript in this court.
The National Surety Company now moves to dismiss the appeal, so perfected, in so far as it may be concerned; but, as is evident from the foregoing statement, it is not a party to the judgment appealed from, and it is not at all concerned in the appeal.
The motion to dismiss is therefore denied.
DAWKINS, J., takes no part.