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Succession of Davis

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Feb 20, 1956
85 So. 2d 886 (La. 1956)

Opinion

No. 41197.

February 20, 1956.

APPEAL FROM TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE DALTON J. BARRANGER, N. B. TYCER AND SIDNEY W. PROVENSAL, JUDGES AD HOC.

Raymond H. Saal, Covington, for appellant.

Philip E. Pfeffer, Covington, for administrator and appellee.


This is an appeal by Mrs. Winnie D. Wood, Mrs. Nora D. Dourbourg and Mrs. Irene Keller from a judgment rendered against them in the Succession of John H. Davis.

Neither appellants nor their counsel appeared on the day set for argument of the appeal in this Court, nor was a brief filed in support of the appeal. Under these circumstances, it is the settled jurisprudence that the appeal will be dismissed. Harvey v. Thomas, 227 La. 25, 78 So.2d 497; Mendes v. Kostmayer, 226 La. 730, 77 So.2d 21; Williams v. Southern Advance Bag Paper Co., Inc., 226 La. 848, 77 So.2d 416; Di Martino v. O'Brien, 225 La. 329, 72 So.2d 749; Peace v. Love, 223 La. 772, 66 So.2d 803; Henderson v. Life Cas. Ins. Co. of Tennessee, 222 La. 175, 62 So.2d 264; Nungesser v. Railway Exp. Agency, Inc., 220 La. 277, 56 So.2d 422; Core Bros. v. F. J. J. Sloat Dredging Co., 220 La. 169, 55 So.2d 904, and authorities therein cited; Chatelain v. Besnard, 219 La. 488, 53 So.2d 243; Bailey v. Bowans, 219 La. 471, 53 So.2d 237.

It is ordered that the appeal be dismissed.


Summaries of

Succession of Davis

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Feb 20, 1956
85 So. 2d 886 (La. 1956)
Case details for

Succession of Davis

Case Details

Full title:SUCCESSION OF JOHN H. DAVIS

Court:Supreme Court of Louisiana

Date published: Feb 20, 1956

Citations

85 So. 2d 886 (La. 1956)
229 La. 314

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