Case Name: Davidson B. Penn vs. John Evans, Jr.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1876-06
Citations: 28 La. Ann. 576
Docket Number: No. 835
Parties: Davidson B. Penn vs. John Evans, Jr.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 28
Pages: 576–578

Head Matter:
No. 835.
Davidson B. Penn vs. John Evans, Jr.
The evidence shows that the defendant owns property in this State, under the laws and the jurisprudence of this State that is sufficient to authorize an absentee to be sued therein.
The principle, often decided, that one for whom a contract is made is presumed to have ratified it unless he repudiates it, applies to principals — to the parties to be bound; but it can have no application to joint agents as to the ratification of the separate act of one by the other. It is their acts and not their non-action which can bind their principals.
APPEAL from the Eighth Judicial District Court, parish of St. Landry. Morgan, J.
Henry L. Garland, for plaintiff and appellant.
Joseph M Moore and Lewis Brothers, for defendant and appellee.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
Howell, J.
A motion is made to dismiss the appeal in this case on the ground that the certificate appended to the transcript is not signed by the clerk.
This is not a cause of dismissal, being the result of the negligence of the clerk, but until the record is complete wo can not properly dispose of the appeal. C. P., article 898.
It is therefore ordered that the motion to dismiss be denied, and that the case bo continued in order to complete the certificate of the clerk.