Case Name: Oscar H. Foreman vs. Marion Francis et als.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1880
Citations: 1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 337
Docket Number: No. 7439
Parties: Oscar H. Foreman vs. Marion Francis et als.
Judges: 
Reporter: Unreported cases heard and determined by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, from January 8, 1877, to April, 1880
Volume: 1
Pages: 337–338

Head Matter:
No. 7439.
Oscar H. Foreman vs. Marion Francis et als.
An appeal bond is in time if filed on the last day on which the record could be filed, provided twelve months had not elapsed since the date of the judgment appealed from.
Where notes are payable to the order of the maker and are by him endorsed in blank, and the mortgage securing them is in favour of a named person and any other or future holder of them, neither the notes nor the mortgage need be stamped anew when transferred to another than the original holder, even if the United States revenue laws could impose a law of evidence upon the State courts, a doctrine which the court repudiates.
Where, in the proceedings upon an order of seizure and sale, the notice of seizure was defective in not mentioning one of the tracts of land seized (the plantation being composed of two tracts), such omission is one of those irregularities that is cured by the lapse of five years, and the plea of prescription when opposed thereto is good.
Appeal from the District Court for East Baton Rouge. McVea, J.
Barrow & Pope for Plaintiff Appellant. Favrot & Lamon for Defendant.
The suit is to annul an order of seizure and sale, and the adjudication thereunder, of a plantation composed of two tracts of land. The order was taken at the instance of A. Roehereau & Co., against the plaintiff Foreman, and the sale made in 1867. This suit was entered in 1877. Roehereau & Co. are defendants also with their vendee.
On motion to dismiss,

Opinion:
Spencer, J.
The judgment was rendered in June, 1878, and the appeal was returnable on second Monday of February following, the 10th of that month. The appeal bond was not filed until the 13th. The record can be filed within three days after the return day. So can the bond, provided twelve months have not elapsed since the judgment.
Motion denied.