Case Name: Succession of Chas. M. Pilcher.-On Application to Homologate Account and Tableau of Distribution
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1887-03
Citations: 39 La. Ann. 362
Docket Number: No. 9918
Parties: Succession of Chas. M. Pilcher.—On Application to Homologate Account and Tableau of Distribution.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 39
Pages: 362–366

Head Matter:
No. 9918.
Succession of Chas. M. Pilcher.—On Application to Homologate Account and Tableau of Distribution.
ON MOTION TO DISMISS.
Notwithstanding- the clerk’s certificate is not technically sufficient, and the transcript contains neither a statement of facts, note of tlie evidence, bill of exceptions nor assignment of errors — the appellant having been absent from and taken no part in tlie trial, though, constructively, a party to the proceedings — the appeal maybe likened to one brought up by a third person, resting his claim to relief upon questions of law alone, The irregularities in the mode of bringing up such appeal may be disregarded by the court when the questions relied upon as determining the right snificienfely^appear from ,the trun script.
ON THE MERITS.
In the absence of proof to the contrary, it will be assumed that every fact essential to the validity of the judgment, was proven in the court below.
'A partnership once formed and put into action, becomes, in contemplation of law, a moral being, distinct from the persons who compose it.
It is a civil person, which has peculiar rights and attributes. The partners are not. tlie owners of partnership property.
It belongs to the ideal being, which has the control and administration thereof, to enable it to fulfill its legal duties and obligations The partners own the residuum.
Partnership property — whether ordinary or commercial — is liable to creditors of the partnership in preference to those of the individual partners.
Notwithstanding the interest of the deceased member of an ordinary partnership is subjected to administration as his other property, funds realized from the sale thereof cannot be withdrawn from partnership creditors and applied to minors’ claim to $1000.
APPEAL from the Eighth District Court, parish of East Carroll. Delony, J.
W. G. Wyly, for the Appellant.
cJ. M, Kennedy, for the Administrator, Appellee,

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
On Motion to Dismiss.
1st. That the clerk's certificate is insufficient because it does not recite that the transcript contains " all the evidence adduced on the trial."
2d. The transcript is incomplete because it contains no note of evidence, no statement of the facts proven on the trial, and no bill of exceptions, nor assignment of errors filed in this Court.
An examination of the record discloses that the appellant was only, constructively,- a party to the record by newspaper publication of notice, and that he did not actually participate in the trial of the account and tableau of distribution.
Hence his appeal is to be viewed rather in the light of one taken by a third party resting his pietensions to relief upon the face of the papers, the correctness of which he concedes in point of fact, but the legality of which he puts at issue.
"Although a case, the transcript of which comes up without the evidence or any statement of facts, cannot be examined on the merits the court will consider and decide the questions of la/w presented by bills of exception." 7 La. 173; 12 La. 415; 12 Ann. 332.
Under this view of the case, we have chosen to disregard the technical insufficiency of the certificate suggested — a fault not attributable to .the appellant — and proceed to the examination of the case.
Motion to dismiss overruled.