Case Name: PEOPLE'S BANK v. LEVY et al. (WEMP, Intervener)
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1921-01-03
Citations: 151 La. 583
Docket Number: No. 24341
Parties: PEOPLE’S BANK v. LEVY et al. (WEMP, Intervener).
Judges: By the WHOLE COURT as then constituted.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 151
Pages: 583–585

Head Matter:
(92 South. 124)
No. 24341.)
PEOPLE’S BANK v. LEVY et al. (WEMP, Intervener).
(Jan. 3, 1921.
By Division B. May 8, 1922.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
Appeal and error <@=»78I (7) — Devolutive appeal dismissed, where premises have been surrendered and reversal would serve no purpose.
Where the only defense to a summary proceeding to evict tenants was that the lease had been extended and the -only relief asked that the suit be dismissed, but after judgment defendants surrendered the property, a reversal would serve no purpose, and a devolutive appeal cannot afford any relief to defendants, and will be dismissed.
Appeal from Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Natchitoches; W. T. Cunningham, Judge.
Proceedings by the People’s Bank against Edgar Levy and others, in which W. P. Wemp intervened. Judgment against defendants, and they appeal. On motion to dismiss appeal.
Appeal dismissed.
J. D. Rusca, of Natchitoches, for appellants. Breazeale & Breazeale, of Natchitoches, for appellee.
Scarborough & Carver, of Natchitoches, for interveners.
By the WHOLE COURT as then constituted.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
SOMMERVILLE, J.
Intervener and appellee move to dismiss this appeal on the ground that the defendants and appellants have acquiesced in the judgment appealed from by voluntarily executing same.
The case is remanded to the district court for the purpose of taking testimony on the point as to whether or not the defendants and appellants have acquiesced in the judgment appealed from.