3 So. 2d 213 | La. Ct. App. | 1941
The plaintiff-appellee, Mrs. Wm. Winston Woods, has moved to dismiss this appeal on the following grounds "that the defendant and appellant's sole basis for appeal is that a new trial should be granted; that no application for a new trial or to reopen the case was ever made to the trial judge; that the defendant made no appearance in the trial court;" and that "there is no controverting evidence to appellee's demand for the Court to review, * * *".
It will be unnecessary to give a detailed statement of facts in this case, since it is clear that none of the grounds urged by appellee to dismiss this appeal is well founded.
The fact that defendant-appellant, Mrs. Caroline Catherine Schick Rednour, doing business under the name of William Rednour Transfer and Storage Company, did not appear in the lower court, and that judgment was rendered by default, does not deprive her of the right of appeal. In Bell v. Holdcraft, La.App., 196 So. 379, 381, appears the following: "An appeal will lie from a judgment rendered by default * * *". Nor is it important that defendant-appellant failed to request a new trial in the court below. In First Nat. Bank of Arcadia v. Sam M. Richardson Co.,
Further we find that appellee is in error in stating that appellant's sole contention is that a new trial should be granted.
The motion for appeal contains the statement: "* * * that mover, the defendant, is aggrieved by the judgment herein rendered * * *".
It was not necessary for appellant to state in her motion that there was error in the judgment of the lower court. In Lee v. Foley,
In the brief filed by plaintiff-appellee in support of her motion to dismiss this appeal appears the following: "The plaintiff and appellee urges that the only matter before this court is whether or not the allegations of the petition are sustained by the note of evidence contained in the record."
Conceding that this is the only matter before this court, it is clear that we cannot determine that question on a motion to dismiss. An inquiry into the merits of the case would be required. In Typhoon Fan Company v. Pilsbury,
In a recent opinion of the Supreme Court, Succession of Lissa,
For the reasons assigned, the motion to dismiss the appeal is overruled.
Motion denied.