Case Name: P.T.B., INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph Kenneth FONTENOT, et al., Defendant-Appellant
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1987-08-05
Citations: 512 So. 2d 607
Docket Number: No. 86-1268
Parties: P.T.B., INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph Kenneth FONTENOT, et al., Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before LABORDE, YELVERTON and CULPEPPER, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 512
Pages: 607–607

Head Matter:
P.T.B., INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph Kenneth FONTENOT, et al., Defendant-Appellant.
No. 86-1268.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
Aug. 5, 1987.
J. Harold Fontenot, Ville Platte, for defendant-appellant.
Blake Doshotels, Mamou, for plaintiff-ap-pellee.
Before LABORDE, YELVERTON and CULPEPPER, JJ.

Opinion:
MOTION TO REMAND
YELVERTON, Judge.
The mover-appellee, P.T.B., Inc., seeks to remand this case to the trial court in order to traverse the defendants'-appellants' right to proceed in forma pauperis.
Judgment was rendered and signed in open court on November 17, 1986 finding the defendants, Joseph and Helen Fonte-not, liable to the plaintiff in the amount of seven hundred ninety nine and 02/100 dollars ($799.02). The defendants filed a motion and order for appeal on December 15, 1986. The same order contains a motion to proceed without giving bond or paying costs, pursuant to LSA-C.C.P. arts. 5181-5188, the forma pauperis codal articles. Subsequently, the mover filed the instant motion to remand on December 23, 1986.
Once an appeal is granted in forma pau-peris, the proper remedy to traverse the affidavits of poverty or the applicant's right to exercise the privilege, is to timely apply to the appellate court to remand the case for that purpose. Doyle v. Aetna Life and Casualty Co., 309 So.2d 803 (La.App. 3 Cir.1974) and cases cited therein.
MOTION GRANTED AND CASE REMANDED.