Case Name: Mrs. Annie Huyghe vs. Henry Brinkman
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1886-11
Citations: 38 La. Ann. 836
Docket Number: No. 9569
Parties: Mrs. Annie Huyghe vs. Henry Brinkman.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 38
Pages: 836–843

Head Matter:
No. 9569.
Mrs. Annie Huyghe vs. Henry Brinkman.
Where a motion to dismiss the appeal is made on the ground of the deficiency of the transcript as shown by the clerk’s certificate, and the transcript is completed and the missing evidence supplied, and the certificate converted under a certiorari from this court before the case is submitted, and no delay is occasioned by the steps taken for the completion of the transcript, the appeal will not be dismissed.
When in a possessory action the parties urge claims and counter claims which necessarily involve the question of title, and are clear incidents of ownership, an issue which can. not be tried in such an action, the parties will be relegated to the petitory action as a necessary gtep to a proper adjudication of such claims.
Courts cannot be required to decide controversies by piece-meals — a decision of the fundamental question must precede a diccnssion of rights incident thereto.
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J.
Alfred Goldfhwaite for Plaintiff and Appellant.
Bayne & Denegre and Braughn, Buelc, DinTcelspiel <& Bart for Defendant and Appellee.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Todd, J.
This motion is grounded on the deficiency of the transcript through the alleged fault of the appellant.
Before the case was submitted, the documents alleged to be missing were supplied under a writ of certiorari from this court. Furthermore the defective certificate of the clerk accompanying the transcript when filed, was supplemented and corrected* and this new certificate showing a full and complete transcript was by the permission of the court filed on the motion of the appellant.
Finding, then, a perfect transcript before us, containing all the evidence, documents and proceedings had in the lower court, and no delay having been caused by these efforts of the appellant to complete the transcript, we see no reason whatever to dismiss the appeal.
The motion to dismiss is, therefore, denied.