No. 11,448 | La. Ct. App. | May 21, 1928
The judgment appealed from was rendered on February 6, 1928, and was signed on February 27,1928. The suspensive appeal (and also a devolutive appeal) was not applied for until March • 12, 1928. Joseph E. Renecky, Intervenor, in whose favor the judgment of the lower court was rendered, filed a motion to dismiss the suspensive appeal on the grounds that it was not taken within the ten days al-' lowed by law.
Article 575 of the Code of Practice, which prescribes the time within which an appeal must be taken in order to be suspensive, reads as follows;
“If the appeal has been taken within ten days, not including Sundays, it shall stay execution and all further proceedings.”
As the judgment in this case was signed on Monday, February 27, 1928, and there was only one Sunday intervening, to-wit, March 4th and no" legal holidays, from Tuesday, February 28th and eliminating
See Beuhler vs. Beuhler Realty Co., 155 La. 319" court="La." date_filed="1923-07-11" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/beuhler-v-beuhler-realty-co-7173414?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="7173414">155 La. 319, 99 So. 276; Mundy vs. Phillips, 142 La. 180" court="La." date_filed="1917-06-30" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/mundy-v-phillips-7170599?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="7170599">142 La. 180, 76 So. 602; Barrow vs. Caffery, 161 La. 778, 109 So. 488.
The suspensive appeal having been taken more than ten days (exclusive of holidays) after the sighing of the judgment, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the suspensive appeal be dismissed.