Court Opinion

ID: 7182227
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:49:13.021553+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:57.196761
License: Public Domain

The judgment of the court {King, J. absent,) was pronounced by
Eustis, C. J.
This suit was instituted by Alexander Walker, as liquidator of the Atchafalaya Banking Company, against the defendant, as a stockholder, for the recovery of a certain sum alleged to be due the bank by way of contribution on his stock. Before issue joined, M. M. Reynolds, the appellant, on suggesting his appointment as the successor of Walker, was made a party to the suit, and recognized as such. The defendant, among other exceptions to the right of the appellant to sue as plaintiff, objected to the validity of the act of the legislature, under which he was appointed, as being in conflict with the 119th article of the constitution, and of this opinion was the district judge, who decreed that the exception above recited “be sustained, and the motion to make M. M. Reynolds a party to this proceeding be refused, with costs.” From this decree the appeal is taken.
The appellant had been for months previously the party plaintiff in the suit, and the exceptions were made to his right to stand in judgment as such.
*13The effect of the decision of the district judge undoubtedly was to put the appellant out of court; and such would have been the decree had it been asked for at the trial. There was no motion pending to be decided. The decision was made on the issue tendered by the exception, and it ought to have been in conformity with the conclusions of the defendant, viz. that the suit be dismissed. From such a decree the appeal could have been sustained. But our Impression is that the decree of the district judge is not of that character irom which an appeal can be taken, and that the present appeal is premature. The matter appears to have been an oversight, which can be easily remedied by the district judge decreeing that the exception of the defendant be sustained, and that the said Reynolds, as plaintiff, be hence dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.