Case Name: Mrs. M. L. Bennett vs. Her Creditors
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1893-06
Citations: 45 La. Ann. 1019
Docket Number: No. 1270
Parties: Mrs. M. L. Bennett vs. Her Creditors.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 45
Pages: 1019–1023

Head Matter:
No. 1270.
Mrs. M. L. Bennett vs. Her Creditors.
"When a partylapplies for and obtains two orders of appeal in open court, one to tbe Circuit Court of Appeals and the other to the Supreme Court, and prosecutes one, .which is dismissed for want of jurisdiction, this order being null and void, he can avail himself of the other order for an appeal, and prosecute it in the court having jurisdiction.
The granting of a respite to the debtor by creditors does not impair the privilege they may have on the debtor’s property. The property burdened with the privilege can not be sold and the proceeds ratably distributed among the creditors — only the surplus, after satisfying the privileged debt, can be so distributed.
APPEAL from the Fourth District Court, Parish of Caldwell. Wear, J.
Boatner & Lamkin for Plaintiff and Appellee.
Guriby & Sholars for Opponents and Appellants.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
McEneey, J.
The appellants obtained two orders of appeal in open court from the judgment — one to the Circuit Court of Appeals and the other to this court.
They were applied for and obtained at the same time. The appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals was prosecuted and dismissed for want of jurisdiction, after which this appeal was prosecuted.
The first appeal prosecuted was a nullity, and the second valid and legal. It was in force and could be prosecuted in accordance with the order granting it. Because the other order obtained at the same time for an appeal was null and void it could not affect the order of appeal made returnable to this court.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is therefore denied. '