Dumas v. Guesnon
Dumas v. Guesnon
Opinion of the Court
The facts which gave rise to this controversy are fully stated in the opinion lately delivered in the case of Guesnon v. His Creditors, ante, p. 382.
This suit was instituted for the purpose of obtaining from the court which had rendered it, the cancelling of a judgment rendered by the court, a qua, ordering that a certain judicial mortgage recorded against the defendant Guesnon, syndic of his own insolvent estate, should be erased from' the books kept by the Recorder of Mortgages, for certain reasons adduced in the plaintiff’s petition. The defendant filed several exceptions, to wit: 1st. That the Court of Probates has no jurisdiction in this case ratione materia et persona, because the syndic, having filed his tableau of distribution before the District Court, and being only accountable before that court, which is seized exclusively of all the matters connected with the settlement of the insolvent estate, this suit should have been brought before said District Court. 2d. That the same matters are, by way of opposition to the said tableau, pending before the District Court. 3d. The plea of res judicata, in consequence of the judgment rendered by the District Court on the same question arising in the present case. The record of the suit of Guesnon v. His Creditors, was produced in evidence in this cause.
The Judge, a quo, sustained the exception rei judicata, and dismissed the plaintiff’s petition; and from this judgment the plaintiff has appealed.
In consequence of our decision, it appears to us, that there is no further necessity for examining and expressing any opinion on the questions presented by the pleadings ; that even were we to cancel the decree complained of, our judgment could not in any manner relieve the plaintiff, and would be void and nugatory j and that justice does not require in this case any other judgment at our hands, than one dismissing the plaintiff’s appeal.
Appeal dismissed.
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