Case Name: Norma Solar, wife of and Rockford SOLAR v. CITY OF KENNER et al.
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1976-05-18
Citations: 332 So. 2d 491
Docket Number: No. 7394
Parties: Norma Solar, wife of and Rockford SOLAR v. CITY OF KENNER et al.
Judges: Before SAMUEL, BOUTALL and BEER, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 332
Pages: 491–492

Head Matter:
Norma Solar, wife of and Rockford SOLAR v. CITY OF KENNER et al.
No. 7394.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
May 18, 1976.
Norman Mopsik, J. D., New Orleans, for Norma Solar, wife of/and Rockford Solar, plaintiffs-appellants.
Philip K. Jones, Baton Rouge, Marshall W. Wroten, and Jesse S. Guillot, New Orleans, for the Louisiana Dept, of Highways, defendants-appellees.
Before SAMUEL, BOUTALL and BEER, JJ.

Opinion:
BOUTALL, Judge.
Appellee has filed a motion to dismiss this appeal because of untimely filing of the appeal bond.
The record in this case reveals the following : Judgment was rendéred adverse to appellants on February 24, 1975. As the matter was not taken under advisement and there was no request for notice of the signing of the judgment, no such notice was required (LSA-C.C.P. Art. 1913). There was no application for a new trial. On May 20, 1975 the trial court signed a devolutive appeal order, setting the security at $250.00. The appeal bond was filed into the record on June 10, 1975.
C.C.P. Article 2087 sets out the delay period in which a devolutive appeal may he taken. Since there was no application for a new trial, appellants had 97 days from the date the judgment was signed in which to perfect their appeal. In order to perfect an appeal and to attach jurisdiction to this court, an appellant must timely file his security within the delay period. C.C.P. Article 2088. The record reflects that these appellants filed their bond on the 106th day, clearly beyond the time allowed.
Appellants offer illness of the surety as excuse for this excessive delay. The statute provides no such basis for relief from its application. The appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
APPEAL DISMISSED.