Case Name: HORSTHEMKE v. NATIONAL SURETY CO.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1921-06-15
Citations: 151 La. 55
Docket Number: No. 24680
Parties: HORSTHEMKE v. NATIONAL SURETY CO.
Judges: By Division A, composed of Chief Justice PROVOSTY and Justices OVERTON and LECHE.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 151
Pages: 55–57

Head Matter:
(91 South. 544)
No. 24680.
HORSTHEMKE v. NATIONAL SURETY CO.
(June 15, 1921.
On the Merits, March 27, 1922.
Rehearing Denied April 17, 1922.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
On Motion to Dismiss.
1. Appeal and error <&wkey;>800 — Motion to dismiss, denied when transcript perfected by consolidation with another transcript.
A motion to dismiss because of the omission from the transcript of evidence taken in a former suit and introduced in evidence in the pending suit will be denied, where appellant’s counsel before receiving notice of the motion had obtained leave to consolidate the transcripts in the two eases, thereby perfecting the defective transcript.
On the Merits.
2. Principal and surety '&wkey;>l45M) — Suretyship; under ordinance requiring bond, judgment against carrier held not binding on surety.
Under an ordinance requiring carriers of passengers within the city to give an indemnity bond, and providing that any person damaged through the carrier’s fault should have hiseáuse of action against the surety to the same extent as if the obligation of the surety were in his own favor, the surety is not concluded from inquiring into the merits of the suit by the judgment against the carrier.
3. Municipal corporations <&wkey;703(l) — Ordinance requiring bond must be read into the bond, and fixes rights of parties.
The provisions of an ordinance requiring carriers of passengers within the city to give an indemnity bond, and giving persons damaged through the carrier’s fault a right of action against the surety, must be read into the bond, and fix the rights, as well as the obligations, of the surety.
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Hugh C. Cage, Judge.
Action by John Horsthemke against the National Surety Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Judgment avoided and reversed, and suit dismissed.
Grant & Grant, of New Orleans, for appellant.
F. B. Davenport, of New Orleans, for appellee.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
PROVOSTY, J.
The plaintiff in this suit having heretofore obtained a judgment against the New Orleans Railway & Light Company, brought the present suit against the defendant, surety on the bond of said New Orleans Railway & Light Company. On the trial of the present suit the evidence taken in the former suit was offered in evidence. This evidence was left out of the transcript in the present suit for the reason that it was already on file in this court in the transcript of the appeal in the former suit. The transcript in the present suit was filed in this court on the 21st of May. On the 24th, the appellee moved to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that, although the transcript was certified by the clerk of the trial court to contain all the evidence adduced on the trial of the case, it did not, as a matter of fact, contain this evidence taken in the former suit. On the 26th of May, before counsel for appellant had had any notice of this motion to dismiss, he obtained leave of this court to consolidate the transcripts of the two cases. This had the effect of perfecting the transcript.
The motion to dismiss is denied.