Case Name: Daniel & James D. Edwards vs. Edgar Marin
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1876-05
Citations: 28 La. Ann. 567
Docket Number: No. 4890
Parties: Daniel & James D. Edwards vs. Edgar Marin.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 28
Pages: 567–568

Head Matter:
No. 4890.
Daniel & James D. Edwards vs. Edgar Marin.
The proposition is incorroet that if one obtains an order for a suspensive appeal and fails to complete it and to prosecute it lie can not afterward take a devolu-tive appeal.
If one abandons an appeal after the jurisdiction of the appellate court has attached he can not afterward appeal, but a failure to complete the suspensive appeal does not preclude the party from taking a devolutive appeal within the year after the judgment.
In this ease, the surety given on the suspensive appeal bond having been declared not good, the appellant was authorized to take a devolutive appeal.
The defendant is a resident of the parish of Plaauemines, and should have been sued at his domicile. The act No. m of 187G, which authorizes property to be sequestered, etc., and defendant cited where the property tobe sequestered, etc., is found, is not applicable to this case. This suit was instituted in 1872, long before the passage of said law, and can not be affected by it. The court did not have jurisdiction of the case when it was filed, nor when the judgment was rendered.
APPEAL from the Fifth District Court, parish of Orleans. Cullorn, J.
M'ornar <£• Benedict, for plaintiffs and appellees.
Sambeta, & Hueros, for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
On MotioN to Dismiss.
Ludeling, C. J.
A motion to dismiss this appeal has been made on the ground that a suspensive appeal having been granted and the amount of the bond fixed in the order of appeal, and said bond having been given and set aside on account of the worthlessness of the security, and there being nothing of record to show the inability of appellant to give bond for a suspensive appeal, ho can not afterward take a devolutive appeal.
The proposition is, that if one obtains an order for a suspensive appeal and fails to complete it and to prosecute it he can not' afterward take a devolutive appeal.
We do not understand that to be the law. If one abandons an appeal after the jurisdiction of the appellate court has attached he can not afterward appeal, but a failure to complete the suspensive appeal does not preclude the party from taking a devolutive appeal within the year after judgment.
In this case the surety given on the suspensive appeal bond having been declared not good, the appellant was authorized to take a devolu-tive appeal. 2 An. 628, Gibson vs. Selby; 11 La. 382; 15 An. 116.
It is therefore ordered that the motion to dismiss the appeal be overruled.