Case Name: Succession of BALOVICH
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1910-11-14
Citations: 128 La. 69
Docket Number: No. 18,437
Parties: Succession of BALOVICH.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 128
Pages: 69–71

Head Matter:
(54 South. 474.)
No. 18,437.
Succession of BALOVICH.
(Nov. 14, 1910.
On the Merits, Feb. 13, 1911.)
(Syllabus by the Gourt.)
Executors and Administrators (§ 873*) — Sale — Default Judgment — Setting Aside.
Where an executrix sues an adjudicatee to compel the acceptance of title, a judgment by default against the adjudicatee will be set aside where it is shown that the plaintiff in confirming the default failed to introduce in evidence the order of sale in the succession ■ proceeding. This order of sale is the basis of the title of the adjudicatee, and so the judgment to compel him to accept the title must also be founded upon this order.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see ^Executors and Administrators, Dec. Dig. § 373.*]
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Fred D. King, Judge.
Proceedings by Mrs. Katie O’Grady, executrix, for settlement of the succession of John Balovich'. From a judgment to compel N. Frey, adjudicatee of'certain property, to accept title and comply with the adjudication, he appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
P. M. Milner, for appellant. W. Alexander Bahns, for appellee O’Grady.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
PROVO STY, J.
After the appeal had been perfected by giving bond, but before the transcript of appeal had been lodged in this court, the appellant died. His legal representatives were slow in making themselves parties to the appeal, and the present motion to dismiss the appeal for want of an appellant was filed. Since then, however, the proper parties have been made so that the alleged ground for dismissal no longer exists.
The motion to dismiss is therefore overruled.