Case Name: SUCCESSION OF GABE LAWRENCE AND WIFE
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1909-05-03
Citations: 6 Teiss. 319
Docket Number: No. 4724
Parties: SUCCESSION OF GABE LAWRENCE AND WIFE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions, Court of Appeal, parish of Orleans (Teissier)
Volume: 6
Pages: 319–322

Head Matter:
No. 4724.
Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans.
SUCCESSION OF GABE LAWRENCE AND WIFE.
ON MOTION TO DISMISS!
1. An appeal is timely, if filed within three judicial days after, the return day.
.2. Where .the appeal is not from a money judgment but from one vacating an appointment, the judge fixes the amount of the bond in such sum as he deems sufficient.
3. The suggestion that the appeal is frivolous appertains to the merits and will not be considered on a motion to dismiss.
Appeal from Civil District Court, Division “D.”
Jas. J. McLaughlin, Attorney for Succession .and Appellant.
J. Q. Flynn,' Attorney, for Appellee.

Opinion:
ESTOPINAL, J.
Appellee moves to dismiss on three Cgrounds:
1st, That the return day was Monday,. February dth, and the record was not lodged here until February 10th.
A ease will be' remanded when it shall appear that the circumstances of the application are extraordinary and exceptional, and the ends. of justice require remanding.
February 24, 1909.
The appeal was timely, appellant having three judicial days, of grace after the return, day.
2nd, That the bond is insufficient and not in accordance with. law.
The appeal is not from a money judgment and the bond', of appeal ia such cases is properly ñxed by the trial judge, for such sum as he deems sufficient.
3rd, That the appeal is frivolous,.
This appertains to the mei'its and will not b.e considered on a motion to dismiss.
Motion denied.