Case Name: A. S. Hathcock v. Elbert Gray
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1870-07
Citations: 22 La. Ann. 472
Docket Number: No. 109
Parties: A. S. Hathcock v. Elbert Gray.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 472–474

Head Matter:
No. 109.
A. S. Hathcock v. Elbert Gray.
If an attachment lias issued against a debtor before tlio debt is due, and the evidence shows that he intended leaving the State, permanently, the attaching creditor can not be compelled to pay damages, although the attachment has been dissolved.
A bill of exceptions to the charge of the judge to the jury must be made before the jury retires, reduced to mating and signed by the judge, otherwise it will not be noticed on appeal. O. P. 517; 5 R. 216.
APPEAL from the Eleventh Judicial District, parish of Claiborne. Fgan, J.
John Young, for plaintiff and appellant. Young & Wilson, for defendant and appellee.
This case was tried by a jury in the district court.

Opinion:
Taliaferro, J.
There is a motion to dismiss the appeal in this case. The grounds are:
First — Because the appeal bond was not approved by the judge, the only one authorized to make the approval.
Second — The amount in dispute is less than five hundred dollars.
A further ground is that a paper inserted in the record is not embraced in the clerk's certificate.
On the first ground, we are referred to no law making it the duty of the judge to affirm appeal bonds, and we are aware of none.
On the second, the plaintiff sues for seven hundred dollars damages, founding his suit on an attachment bond for that amount. A slip of paper, upon which is copied from the minutes a list of the jurymen who sat on the trial of the case, together with the verdict rendered by them, is inserted as an extension of page nine of the record. *"
None of these grounds authorize a dismissal of the appeal, and the-, motion is therefore overruled.