Case Name: Succession of Benjamin Andrews
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1861-05
Citations: 16 La. Ann. 340
Docket Number: 
Parties: Succession of Benjamin Andrews.
Judges: Land, J., absent, concitrring.
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 16
Pages: 340–341

Head Matter:
Succession of Benjamin Andrews.
From tlie moment when the citation of appeal is served on the appellee, tlie appellant cannot withdraw his appeal; and whether the appellee ohtaia the rejection of the appeal by producing the record from the court below or prosecute execution on the judgment appealed from, on the certificate of the Cleric that the record has not been brought up by the appellant (within three days after the time allowed him to file the record) the appeal shall be considered as abandoned, and the appellant shall not after-wards be allowed to renew it. 0. P. 594, 5S9 ; 15 An. 591 arid 592.
Appeal from the District Court of Washington, Wilson, J.
21 O. W. Ellis, for Burris, curator. Alfred Hennen, for defendants.

Opinion:
Buchanan, J.
The appellee moves to dismiss this appeal on the following grounds:
1. That appellant applied for and obtained an appeal to this court, returnable on the fourth Monday of February, 1860, from a judgment ren- ' dered by the District Court on the 15th December, 1859; that he failed to give bond and take the necessary steps to prosecute his said appeal; that appellant thereby abandoned his appeal, and cannot be permitted to renew it.
2. That having failed to bring up his said appeal within the time prescribed by the order of court and at the regular return day, ajjpellee ob,-tained the .certificate of the Clerk of the Supreme Court, stating that the record had not been brought up, &c., which certificate ajjpellee produced riat the next regular term of the-District Court, and obtained award of exe- . cution upon the judgment, which thereby became irrevocable; that the subsequent appeal from the said judgment is consequently illegal, and cannot be entertained. - •
The facts stated in this rule are shown to he true by the record. And under the law and the practice of the court, tisis motion must prevail. C. P. Art. 589, 594; 15 An. 591; Ibid. 592.
Rule absolute, and appeal dismissed, at costs of appellant.
Land, J., absent, concitrring.