Case Name: E. Staehle vs. Sydney Leopold
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1901-11
Citations: 107 La. 399
Docket Number: No. 14,177
Parties: E. Staehle vs. Sydney Leopold.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 107
Pages: 399–402

Head Matter:
No. 14,177.
E. Staehle vs. Sydney Leopold.
Syllabus.
On Motion to Dismiss the Appeal on the Ground op Acquiescence in the Judgment op the Lower Court.
Plaintiff and appellant reserved his right to prosecute his appeal in his receipt handed by him to the defendant for an amount received after judgment In part payment of his claim, in terms sufficiently plain.
The court overruled the motion to dismiss.
On the Merits.
1. The acceptance of the lessee was not substantially different from the offer of the lessor.
2. The parties disagreed about the amount of the rent, and when in the end the tenant agreed to pay the amount as he understood to have been asked by plaintiff, there was no question raised regarding the amount of the respective instalments, the total of which instalments is the same whether as claimed by plaintiff or as accepted by defendant.
3. The evidence is conflicting, defendant swearing affirmatively and plaintiff stoutly denying. Between positive testimony regarding what was said or done at a particular time and negative testimony, the latter is generally con- . sidered of less weight, when it becomes merely a question of correctness ot things remembered to have occurred or been said, the tacts and circumstances of the case not being such as to prevent the unjust operation of the rule. Cuesnard vs. Executor, 33 Ann. 800 ; Law of Evidence, Jones, Vol. 3, p. 901.
4. Where an issue was not raised in the District Court on appeal a correction of the judgment will not be made.
5. The controversy is brought to an end by deciding in effect that plaintiff is the lessor of the defendant an'd that the latter owes rent as set forth in the decision.
APPEAL from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans.— Theard, J.
Felix J. Dreyfous and Solomon Wolff, for Plaintiff, Appellant.
E. Howard McOaleb, for Defendant, Appellee.

Opinion:
On the Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Breaux, J.
Defendant and appellee moves to dismiss this appeal on the ground that, since the appeal was -taken, the plaintiff and appellant has acquiesced in the judgment rendered by voluntarily executing it In receiving two hundred and fifty dollars rent for the premises leased for the month of October, 1901. The receipt which defendant pleads as evidence of acquiescence shows on its face tha-t -the amount on rent account paid by defendant was received by plaintiff without prejudice to his right in the suit. Plaintiff was not committed by accepting the amount, for which defendant accepted a receipt containing a reservation of a right to prosecute the appeal as before mentioned.