Case Name: MRS. IDELIA GROSS VEASEY, ET AL. vs. LOUIS R. EISENBERG
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1914-04-20
Citations: 11 Teiss. 220
Docket Number: No. 6064
Parties: MRS. IDELIA GROSS VEASEY, ET AL. vs. LOUIS R. EISENBERG.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions, Court of Appeal, parish of Orleans (Teissier)
Volume: 11
Pages: 220–222

Head Matter:
No. 6064.
MRS. IDELIA GROSS VEASEY, ET AL. vs. LOUIS R. EISENBERG.
Syllabus.
1. An exception overruled “without prejudice to any legal defense on the merits,” is overruled purely and simply and does not prevent the taking of a default.
2. An answer comes too late after the ease is submitted.
3. Where, a married woman, without the authorization of her husband, pays a debt for which she is only naturally, but not civilly liable, the payment is not valid and may be reclaimed.
Appeal from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Division “A,” No. 103,798. Hon. T. 'C. W. Ellis, Judge.
Paul W. Maloney, for plaintiff and appellee.
A. D. Danziger, for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
His Honor, JOHN ST. PAUL,
rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:
Appellant complains that having filed an exception' and same having 'been overruled "without prejudice to any legal defense on the merits" no default could be taken although no answer was filed.
We fail to appreciate the force of this contention. The overruling of .an exception can never prejudice any legal defense on the merits, and the addition of words to that effect neither adds to nor detracts from the fact that the exception was overruled purely and simply.
Again appellant complains that his answer, filed after the case had been taken under advisement was not considered. This was proper; the time for filing pleas, exceptions and answers, is before, not after the submission of the case.