Court Opinion

ID: 9865888
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 23:42:05.024787+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:03:21.859182
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OTT, Judge.
Plaintiff sues to recover damages in the sum of $10,000 which she claims to have sustained in an automobile accident on June 13, 1933, in the parish of Lafayette, on the Old Spanish Trail Highway No. 90. She avers that the said accident resulting in her injuries was caused by the negligence of the defendant, Mrs. Short, in running into the side of a bridge or against a post while plaintiff was riding in the automobile as an invited guest of Mrs. Short; that Mrs. Short was driving the car which belonged to her husband, Thompson Short, with his permission and consent. Both Mr. and Mrs. Short are made defendants in the suit. As both of these defendants are nonresidents of state, they were cited through the secretary of state under Act 86 of 1928, as amended.
The Maryland Casualty Company of Baltimore, an insurance company artthor-ized to do business in Louisiana, was joined in the suit as an insurer of the owner of the car in the sum of $5,000, and this company was cited through the secretary of state and judgment asked for against it in that amount. This insurance company filed an exception of mis-joinder, which exception was sustained, and the suit dismissed as to the insurance company. Plaintiff has appealed from that judgment, and the appellee has filed a motion in this court to dismiss the appeal.
On Motion to. Dismiss.
On June 26, 1935, plaintiff secured an order of appeal suspensive and devolutive, returnable to this court in 50 days from that date. Under that order of appeal no bond was filed by the appellant, nor was the transcript filed in this court within the time fixed in the order. On August 27, 1935, plaintiff obtained an order for a devolutive appeal returnable to this court on September 28, 1935, in which order the appellee was ordered to be cited to answer the appeal. Counsel for appellee accepted service of the order and citation of appeal on August 29, 1935. The bond fixed in this order was filed August 30, 1935, and the transcript was filed in this court in due time.
The motion to dismiss is based on the failure of appellant to perfect the first order of appeal by filing the transcript in this court within the time fixed in the order, appellee claiming that this failure to perfect said appeal operated as an abandonment of same.
Until the bond for an appeal is filed, there is no appeal to abandon. Appellant had never filed a bond to perfect the first order of appeal, and when he obtained the order for the devolutive appeal on August 27, 1934, the situation was the same as though no order of appeal had ever been granted. The order for the devolutive appeal was well within the year. This motion to dismiss is controlled by the decision in the case of Vacuum Oil *513Co. v. Cockrell, 177 La. 623, 148 So. 898. The motion to dismiss the appeal is overruled.