68 So. 128 | La. | 1915
The ease is fully reported in 132 La. 100, 61 South. 128. Plaintiffs, the heirs of Mrs. William Kern, sued the defendant, Alonzo D. Kern, another heir, to compel him to restore to the succession the property which was alleged to
There was judgment in the district court in favor of plaintiffs against Alonzo D. Kern and the Fidelity Realty Company decreeing the sale of certain property therein described to have been simulated, null, and void, and ordering the same to be returned to the estate of Mrs. William Kern. It was further decreed that “all costs of these proceedings be paid by defendants.” Alonzo D. Kern and the Fidelity Realty Company appealed. Mrs. Delerno did not appeal. The judgment was affirmed. 132 La. 100, 61 South. 128.
On a rule to tax the costs of the trial court, there was judgment fixing the costs at $221.25, and they were taxed “against the defendants herein, together with the costs of this rule.” That is the judgment now before us for review. Mrs. Delerno alone has appealed. • ¡
The first error complained of by defendant Mrs. Delerno is that she was not liable under the decree of this court for costs in the district court. She was not before this court, when the case was on appeal; and she was not therefore covered by the judgment in the case. The judgment then appealed from was affirmed, at appellants’ cost. And, in the proceeding now before us, Mrs. Delerno is not sought to be held for any portion of the costs of the appeal.
The “plaintiff” is he who sues another for sometMng, which he says is due'or belongs to him; and the “defendant” is one against whom the suit is brought. C. P. art. 100. The rule in question was brought by the “plaintiffs against Alonzo D. Kern, Mrs. Gertrude Delerno and Samuel Delerno, to aid, assist and authorize his wife, and the Fidelity Casualty Company, surety,” etc. Reference to the record shows that some of the heirs of Mrs. William D. Kern, and other heirs of Mrs. Kern, all named in the original petition, are the plaintiffs and defendants respectively, and the rule to tax costs shows who the defendants in that rule were, viz.: “Alonzo D. Kern, Mrs. Gertrude Delerno, and Samuel Delerno,” etc. And, as the original judgment in the case in the district court was in favor of the plaintiffs, naming them, and against Alonzo D. Kern, and the Fidelity Realty Company, decreeing the nullity of a transfer of real property, and further decreeing that “all costs of this proceeding to be paid by the defendants,” it is made very clear by reference to the record that Mrs. Delerno was one of these defendants, and that the judgment against her on
Mr. Black, in his work on judgments (volume 1, § 116), says:
“Numerous authorities hold that a judgment expressed to be merely for or against ‘the plaintiff’ or the ‘defendant’ will be sufficient, if the names of the parties thus designated can be ascertained without ambiguity from other parts of the record.”
Judgment affirmed.