Case Name: Meyer, Weis & Co. vs. E. A. Trousdale et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1880
Citations: 1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 142
Docket Number: No. 732
Parties: Meyer, Weis & Co. vs. E. A. Trousdale et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Unreported cases heard and determined by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, from January 8, 1877, to April, 1880
Volume: 1
Pages: 142–143

Head Matter:
No. 732.
Meyer, Weis & Co. vs. E. A. Trousdale et al.
Those parties to a suit who do not appeal are appellees. The failure or omission of one defendant to appeal does not affect the right of appeal of the other defendant. Before a sale of land can be annulled for alleged fraud upon the rights of the attaching creditor, it must be shewn that the sale jeopards those rights.
Appeal from the District Court of Ouachita. Parsons, J.
B. W. & B. Bichardson for Plaintiffs. Farmer for Defendants.
The plaintiffs brought suit in November, 1874, upon a note of D. B. Trousdale for $891.15, indorsed by his sister, the defendant, which was secured by a mortgage upon four hundred acres of land, and obtained judgment against both of them the next month. Six days before this judgment, Emily A. Trousdale sold to Atkins, the other defendant in this suit, her interest in another tract of land, of which she and Atkins were joint owners, for $2,500, payable in one year. The plaintiffs issued execution and had it levied upon the land specially mortgaged, and the seizure was released by order of their counsel. No execution was issued against D. B. Trousdale, the other judgment debtor, but this suit was instituted against Miss Trousdale and Atkins to annul the sale from the one to the other as fraudulent, and made for the purpose of screening her property from their pursuit.
The case was tried by a jury who found for the plaintiffs, and there was judgment accordingly, from which Atkins alone appealed, the appeal being by motion in open court.
In this court the plaintiffs moved to dismiss on the ground that Miss Trousdale made no appearance in the lower court, and took no appeal, and had not been cited as an appellee.

Opinion:
De Blanc, J.
The appeal was granted in open court. The appeal bond is in favor of the clerk. In such case the parties to a suit who are not appellants are appellees. There was no necessity for citing Miss Trousdale. She is an appellee, and her non-action did not deprive her co-defendant of his constitutional right. 22 A. 463.
The motion to dismiss is overruled.