Case Name: DURKE & BROUSSARD v. CRANE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1904-03-28
Citations: 112 La. 156
Docket Number: No. 14,936
Parties: DURKE & BROUSSARD v. CRANE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 112
Pages: 155–157

Head Matter:
(36 South. 306.)
No. 14,936.
DURKE & BROUSSARD v. CRANE.
(March 28, 1904)
APPEALABLE ORDEE — HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION-APPEAL — REVIEW.
1. When three horses have been seized, and judgment has been rendered ordering two of them be released as exempt from seizure under the homestead law, without specifying which two, and a rule has been taken to supplement the judgment by deciding which two of the horses should be released, held, that the judgment on this rule is appealable to the Supreme Court, it involving a homestead right, and it being, besides, merely incidental to the main judgment, which admittedly was appealable to the Supreme Court, as involving a homestead right.
2. If the judgment appealed from was founded on the fact that one of the horses was not a work horse, but an unbroken two year old, it was correct, for the constitutional exemption calls for work horses, not unbroken colts.
3. The judgment appealed from, in so far as founded on the facts, cannot be reviewed by this court in the absence of the facts, and can only be affirmed as presumably correct.
4. Either none or all of the testimony must be taken down in writing, and the court may refuse the request to have the testimony reduced to writing, if not made at the beginning of the trial.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal from Seventeenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Vermilion; Minos Thomas Gordy, Jr., Judge.
Action by Durke & Broussard against George Crane. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs appeal.
Affirmed.
Breaux & Gordy, for appellants. John Nugier, Jr., for appellee.

Opinion:
PROVOSTY, J.
Plaintiff levied upon three horses. Defendant claimed two of the horses, without specifying which two, as exempt from seizure under the homestead law, and obtained judgment accordingly. Plaintiff acquiesced in the judgment; but difference arose as to which two of the horses defendant should have. To settle the matter, defendant took a rule, and from a judgment in his favor on this rule the present appeal is taken.
Motion is made to dismiss on the ground that the matter is not a "suit involving a homestead exemption," within the meaning of the Constitution conferring special jurisdiction upon this court in such eases.
The judgment, in its effects, secures to the appellee the benefit of the homestead law. Therefore it "involves a homestead exemption."
Besides, it is merely interlocutory and incidental, interpreting and completing the main judgment, and, as such, follows its principal. Demarest v. Beirne, 36 La. Ann. 751; State ex rel. Suberville v. Judge, 45 La. Ann. 1319, 14 South. 118.
The motion is overruled.