Case Name: State of Louisiana, ex rel. S. Belden, Attorney General, v. Francis C. Mahan
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1870-07
Citations: 22 La. Ann. 449
Docket Number: No. 112
Parties: State of Louisiana, ex rel. S. Belden, Attorney General, v. Francis C. Mahan.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 449–450

Head Matter:
No. 112.
State of Louisiana, ex rel. S. Belden, Attorney General, v. Francis C. Mahan.
After an appeal ig granted, and the bond given and filed in the record, the jurisdiction of th 4 court a qua ceases, except to test the solvency of the surety on the bond. Therefore, a second order, rendered afterwards by the -judge a quo, changing the return day, and granting further time to the appellant, is a nullity, and the appeal will be dismissed, if not filed in the Supreme Court, within the time allowed under the first order.
APPEAL from Eighth District Court, parish of Orleans. J. It. Beckwith, (attorney at law), Special Judge, vice Dibble, J., recused.
Simeon Belclen, Attorney General, and John Bay, for plaintiff and appellee. . L. Madison Bay, Bafus Wqples, and G. M. Brcmghn, for defendant and appellant. . .

Opinion:
Wyly, J. •
A motion is made to dismiss this appeal, because the transcript was not filed in this court within three judicial days after the return day fixed by the district judge.
On tlie twenty-second of June, 1870, the appeal was granted, and the bond was filed on tlie same day, the return day being- fixed on tlie first Monday of July, 1870, at Monroe. The record was not filed till more than three judicial days had elapsed after tho return day. But, it appears, that the appellant obtained from the district judge on tho seventh of July, an oi-der extending the time of tho return day till the eighth of July, 1870,
This order ivas an absolute nullity. The appeal having been granted, and the bond given, the district judge ceased to have jurisdiction of the case further than to test the sufficiency of tho security on the appeal bond. 21 An. 152; 19 La. 178. The motion to dismiss is therefore well taken. 21 An. 210, 213.
Let the appeal be dismissed at tho cost of the appellant.