89 So. 2d 149 | La. | 1956
The appellee, Dr. Joseph D. Dantone, in reliance on the provisions of Article 573' of the Code of Practice, as amended by Act 49 of 1871 and Section 1 of Act 24 of 1930,
This contention is not well taken for the provisions of LSA-R.S. 13:4452' (Article 573 of the Code of Practice as-amended by Act 24 of 1930), ordinarily-controlling in appeals from judgments-granting separations or divorces, being in derogation of the right of appeal (which finds favor in the law), must be strictly construed, and are, therefore, inapplicable
For the reasons assigned, the appeal is •dismissed as suspensive, but maintained as •devolutive.
. Article 573 as amended in 1871 provided that “where the judgment decrees a divorce, such a petition or motion of appeal must be filed within thirty days * * * after the signing of such judgment, instead of ten days, and shall operate as a suspensive appeal therefrom, and there shall be no devolutive appeal allowed thereafter.” However, these provisions were superseded by the enactment of Section 1 of Act 24 of 1930 (now LSA-R.S. 13:4452) which provides that “ * * * no appeal shall lie from any final judgment of separation from bed and board or of divorce after thirty days from its date, but any appeal perfected within that time shall suspend the execution of the judgment until the appeal shall have been finally disposed of.”'