Case Name: Succession of IBOS
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1918-01-28
Citations: 144 La. 813
Docket Number: No. 22885
Parties: Succession of IBOS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 144
Pages: 813–819

Head Matter:
(81 South. 326)
No. 22885.
Succession of IBOS.
(Jan. 28, 1918.
On the Merits, March 3, 1919.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
1. Appeal and Error <&wkey;397 — Term—Signing op Judgment — Dismissal.
Where a judgment was signed at a term after that at which it was rendered and written, and appeal was taken at a subsequent term, after signature, by motion in open court, without citation of appeal other than that resulting under Code Prac. arts. 573, 574, the appeal would not be dismissed, because not taken at term at which judgment was rendered, as a judgment is not rendered and appealable until it has been signed.
On the Merits.
2. Courts <&wkey;224(11) — Appellate Jurisdiction — Amount — Constitutional Pro visions.
Where the judgment in opposition to an executrix’s final account involved the correctness of the debits, involving the distribution of over 88,000, the calculation of an auctioneer’s commissions on proceeds of sales amounting to more than 87,000, the fund to be distributed exceeded 82,000, so as to give the Supreme Court jurisdiction, under Const, art. S5.
3. Executors and Administrators <&wkey;513 (15) — Succession — Accounting — Sufficiency.
Where an executrix was to be charged with 88,555.46, and her account showed that she had either paid or proposed to pay out 820.01 more than was realized on the sale of the assets of the estate, she had reasonably accounted for all that she received.
4. Executors and Administrators <&wkey;401 —Succession — Expenses of Sale — Auctioneer’s Charges.
Where an auctioneer, employed to sell property belong to the estate, including the advertising, received a rebate of one-third of the advertising charge from the newspapers, the estate was entitled to the benefit of the reduction, and the auctioneer’s charge was properly reduced by that amount.
5. Executors and Administrators <&wkey;401— Succession — Expenses of Sale — Commissions — Amount.
An auctioneer’s claim for a commission of 2% per cent, for selling the property of an estate, where the amount was less than 810,000, would be reduced, so as to allow 2 per cent, on the gross amount of property sold, as provided by Act No. 130 of 1914.
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish, of Orleans; Pred D. King, Judge.
In the matter of the succession of Eugene Ibos. To the final account of Mrs. A. Bourdette, executrix, John Ibos, an heir, appeals, and files opposition, and from a judgment requiring an accounting of a sum other than shown by her accounts, and from an allowance to opponent and the denial of her motion for a new trial, the executrix appeals, and Perrin, Batter & Blum, creditors, appeal from a reduction of their claim.
Motion by opponent to dismiss appeals overruled, and judgment amended to relieve executrix from further accounting, fixing the claim of the creditors, and striking the allowance to opponent, and otherwise affirmed.
W. Alexander Bahns, of New Orleans, for appellant testamentary executrix.
James Legendre and Armand Romain, both of New Orleans, for appellee Ibos.

Opinion:
PROVO STY, J.
The judgment appealed from was signed at a term of court subsequent to that at which it was rendered and written; and the appeal was taken at this subsequent term, after signature. It was taken by motion in open court; and there was no citation of the appellee, other than that resulting from the provision of the Code of Practice to the effect that, when the appeal is taken "by motion in open court at the same term at which the judgment was rendered, no citation of appeal, or other notice to appellee, shall be necessary." Articles 573 and 574.
The question is whether the appeal is to be considered as having been taken at the same term at which the judgment was rendered.
We think so. A judgment is not considered as rendered and appealable until it has been signed. Thiele v. Crutcher, 20 La. Ann. 499; Orleans, etc., v. International, etc., 113 La. 409, 37 South. 10.
Motion overruled.