Case Name: F. A. Golden vs. Board of Directors of the Public Schools of New Orleans
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1882-03
Citations: 34 La. 354
Docket Number: No. 8293
Parties: F. A. Golden vs. Board of Directors of the Public Schools of New Orleans.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 34
Pages: 354–357

Head Matter:
No. 8293.
F. A. Golden vs. Board of Directors of the Public Schools of New Orleans.
The plaintiff and appellee having caused the case to be set down for trial on the summary docket, as one entitled to be tried by preference, must be deemed to have waived liis rights to a motion to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the bond given by appellant was not such as required by law.
The teachers of the public schools of New Orleans cannot, under the law, be appointed for a longer term tlign one year.
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J,
Henry Dufilho, for Plaintiff and Appellee.
O. F. Bucle, City Attorney, and Wynne Boyers, for Defendants and Appellants.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Bermudez, C. J.
The plaintiff and appellee moves to dismiss the appeal in this case on the sole ground that the defendants have obtained a suspensive appeal from the judgment against them, without giving bond, as required by law.
This motion was filed on the 5th of May, inst. On the 16th, following, the plaintiff and appellee, without any reserve, ordered the case to be placed on the summary docket, as one entitled to be tried on the merits, by preference, under Act 15 of 1880, which was accordingly done.
This order is equivalent to causing the case to be sot down for trial. After such action, the plaintiff and appellee must be deemed as having waived, and cannot, therefore, urge the motion to dismiss, which, therefore, abates. Tlie appellee cannot first ask a dismissal, and next, unconditionally, a trial. The two positions are inconsistent. The latter repudiates the former. 16 A. 337 •, 12 A. 745.,
The case would be different had the motion and the merits been submitted together, as is sometimes done, particularly in the country.
The motion to dismiss is refused.
Rehearing refused.