Case Name: YEATMAN vs. ERWIN ET AL.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1833-03
Citations: 5 La. 264
Docket Number: 
Parties: YEATMAN vs. ERWIN ET AL.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 264–266

Head Matter:
YEATMAN vs. ERWIN ET AL.
'Easters Dis.
March, 1833
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE POURTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OP THE SECOND PRESIDING.
A commission directed to any magistrate of a county in another state, and executed by a person who calls himself, and is certified by the clerk of the county, to he one of the justices thereof, cannot be read if objected to when offered, but the objection can be taken only at that time.
If notice of protest is shown to have been sent to the endorser at a post ofiice in the parish where he resides, it lies with him to show that there is a nother post office nearer to his residence. .
Peirce, for appellants.
1. The commission was not duly executed; there was no proof that Mr. Boss, who executed it was a magistrate.
a commission at-gistrateof^coun- and executed by a person who calls and is offcannotberead when overea, but bftakSf only at
2. It is not proved that the post office established by law, nearest the residence of defendant was Desobry’s post office.
3. There is no such office as Desobry’s post office known to the law.
Porter and Eustis, for appellees.

Opinion:
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court pronounced by
Mathews, J.
The defendants are appellants from a judgment on a note endorsed by their ancestor, and they claim a reversal on the ground that a deposition was read, notwithstanding the absence of any proof of its having been made before the proper officer; and that there was no legal evidence of notice of non-payment having been given to their ancestor.
The commission was directed to any magistrate of the county of Wilkinson, in the state of Tennessee; and it appears to have been executed by a gentleman who calls himself, and is certified by the clerk of the court of the county to be one of the justices thereof. It is certain the objection would have been fatal, if the defendants had sought to avail themselves of it, before they suffered the deposition to be read in the first court. But after having refrained to object there, they cannot be allowed to do so here.
The letter of the notary to the endorser, enclosing the notice was directed to "Joseph Erwin, Desobry's post office, Iberville, Louisiana." The record shows that Iberville is the parish in which the endorser resided, no evidence was given at the trial that there was another post office in the parish, nor any (in another parish) nearer to his residence.
A new trial was asked on the affidavit of one of the attorneys of the defendants, who deposed that there are two post offices in the parish of Iberville; that the one called by the notary Desobry's, is not established by thé act of congress, under that name, but he believes by that of Plaquemine.
It appears to us the new trial was properly denied; no merits were sworn to; it was not stated that the office to which the letter was directed is not nearer the endorser's residence than the other office in the parish, and it appears the affiant well knew by the designation the office which was intended.
tesMs°shownrt¿ the^ndorse^a/a post office in the pansh where the defendant resides, it lies with him to show that there is another post office nearer to Jus residence.
On the merits, we think that when notice is shown to have been sent to an office in the parish in which the endorser resides, it lies with him to show that there is in the parish, or ¶ •, /y . T . . 1 elsewhere, another office nearer to his residence.
It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the District Court be affirmed, with costs.