Case Name: SWAIN v. GLOBE LUMBER CO., Limited
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1915-10-18
Citations: 144 La. 207
Docket Number: No. 21610
Parties: SWAIN v. GLOBE LUMBER CO., Limited.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 144
Pages: 207–211

Head Matter:
(80 South. 256)
No. 21610.
SWAIN v. GLOBE LUMBER CO., Limited.
(Oct. 18, 1915.
On the Merits, Dec. 2, 1918.)
(Syllabus by Editorial Staf.)
1. Appeal and Error <&wkey;507 — Showing op Motion for Appeal by Minutes.
Where the minutes show that an appeal was granted, the appeal is not subject to dismissal on the ground that the minutes do not show that motion for appeal was made, a matter appearing inferentially.
2. Appeal and Error <&wkey;897 — Grant of Appeal in Open Court — Citation of Warrantor.
Where an appeal was granted in open court, no further citation of the warrantor was necessary.
On the Merits.
3. Adverse Possession <&wkey;74 — Thirty Years’ Prescription — Possession of Land Under Judicial Sale.
Where plaintiff’s land was sold to satisfy mortgages, and the land was adjudicated to defendant’s remote predecessor, whose possession began in 1879, defendant’s plea of 30 years’ prescription in plaintiff’s petitory action, begun in 1914, was properly sustained.
4. Adverse Possession <&wkey;84 — Prescription —Defect in Title.
A purchaser of realty from one who himself or his predecessors had held by good, valid, and binding titles, duly recorded, for more than 10 years, held protected by the term of 10 years’ prescription against the original owner of the land, who had lost it by mortgage foreclosure; the fact that purchaser’s predecessor warranted title to it only during his life not showing bad faith on part of purchaser.
Appeal from Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Red River; W. T. Cunningham, Judge.
Petitory action by James Swain against the Globe Lumber Company, Limited. From judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
Nettles & O’Quinn and Stephens & Raphiel, all of Coushatta, for appellant.
Scheen & Blanchard, of Shreveport, for appellee.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
PROVO STY, J.
The minutes in this case read:
"Judgment read signed and filed, see decree. Motion for new trial filed and overruled, orders for appeal granted plaintiff returnable to the Honorable Supreme Court at New Orleans, La., on August 30, 1915. Devolutive appeal bond fixed in the sum of $200. Suspensive appeal bond fixed as by law directed."
The minutes contain no recital of a motion for an appeal having been made in open court; and appellee moves to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the minutes must, under penalty of dismissal, show that a motion for an appeal was made.
In support of this, appellee cites the case of Friscoville Realty Co. v. Parish of St. Bernard, 124 La. 589, 50 South. 590, where a mandamus was asked of this court to compel the trial judge to grant an appeal which had not been applied for either by motion in open court or by petition, but over the telephone, and where this court refused the mandamus, because the proceedings in a court of record cannot be conducted by telephone.
We see no analogy between the two cases. In the present case the minutes show that the appeal was granted. This shows that it was applied for, since it would hardly have been granted if not applied for.
Another ground of the motion to dismiss is that the warrantor was not cited. The appeal having been granted in open court, no further citation was necessary.
The motion to dismiss is denied.