Case Name: J. E. Vignie vs. Jules Brady and F. Charpaux
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1883-04
Citations: 35 La. Ann. 560
Docket Number: No. 8822
Parties: J. E. Vignie vs. Jules Brady and F. Charpaux.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 35
Pages: 560–562

Head Matter:
No. 8822.
J. E. Vignie vs. Jules Brady and F. Charpaux.
It is not necessary that the principals to an appeal bond should sign it. "When it is signed by another, not a party to the suit and not a witness to the signatures, he will be held to have signed it as surety, although his name is not set out in the body of the bond.
Parol testimony is admissible to prove a mistake in the description of lands set out in a deed of conveyance, where error is alleged, and even to shew that a tract of land described therein was not sold, or intended to be conveyed by tbe deed.
APPEAL from the Eighteenth District Court, Parish of St. Tammany. Thompson, J.
milis & milis and M. J). Ogden for Plaintiff and Appellee.
W. JB. Lancaster and m. Sabourin for Defendants and Appellants,

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Manning, J.
The appeal is by defendants, and their bond recites that they are " bound in solido as principals and as sureties." It i& not signed by Charpaux, nor need it be as a principal. It is signed by Brady per his attorney of record, and that is sufficient as a principal.
The. motion is on the ground that these parties are set out in the bond as sureties as well as principáis, and there is no name of any other surety in the body of the bond.
There is another signature at the bottom beneath Brady's, viz: J. Cahier. It is in the place where a surety signs. He does not sign as a witness. There are two witnesses to the instrument, and besides he has the L. S. immediately after his signature. No one but an obligor putshis name at tlte locus sigilli.
The point has been settled by the Succession of Lyons, unreported, and Coyle vs. Suc. Creevy, 34 Ann. 541.
The motion is refused.