Pradat v. Legare
Pradat v. Legare
Opinion of the Court
Plaintiff sued the defendant, Margaret C. Legare, in the parish court, claiming to bo the owner of certain furniture. There was
The judgment of the parish court was affirmed by the district court. Thereupon plaintiff instituted this suit in the district court against the principal and surety on tho appeal bond, in which she claims damages against both principal and surety for upward of a thousand dollars, tho judgment as to the surety to bo satisfied upon the payment of six hundred dollars, tho amount of the bond.
There was judgment against the principal and surety, in solido, for three hundred and seventy-five dollars, together with all costs "of the suit in which the bond was given, and the costs of appeal. Upon tho question for damages a nonsuit was ordered.
Defendants severally excepted to the petition on account of its vagueness and generality. It seems to us that the exception was properly overruled. The cause of action is sot out with sufficient distinctness. They then excepted—
First — That there was a nonjoinder of proper parties plaintiffs; and,
Second — That there was a misjoinder of parties defendant and an improper cumulation of distinct causes of action against different defendants.
We do not see wherein there was a nonjoinder of proper parties plaintiffs. This suit is instituted by the same party and in the same capacity that the suit out of which it springs was instituted, and wo do not see who else there was as plaintiffs to join in it. Neither do we see an improper cumulation of distinct causes of action against different defendants. The cause of action as against the original defendant is the damage suffered by the plaintiff by reason of her being deprived of her property. As against the other defendant, the cause of action is the
In this court defendants filed tho peremptory exception that plaintiff’s petition discloses no cause of action. But the cause of action rests, we think, upon the grounds just expressed.
The next question argued is whether or not a principal on an appeal bond can be sued on the bond ?
Tho suit as against Mrs. M. C. Logare is not on tho appeal bond, properly speaking. She is sued for damages arising from an alleged illegal detention and uso of certain property claimed by the plaintiff. It is not, therefore, necessary to answer the question propounded.
Tho next question presented is, docs plaintiffs petition disclose any cause of action against John C. Logare, the other defendant, as surety on the appeal bond ? Tho argument is that in order to recover against a surety on an appeal bond, the face of the papers must affirmatively show that all the necessary steps have been taken to enforce payment against the principal; that an execution must bo shown to have been issued and returned unsatisfied, and that until thoso steps have been taken no cause of action exists against the surety.
After the judgment appealed from the parish court was affirmed by tho district court execution issued. Tho sheriff returned the writ, saying that he was unable to find any of tho articles of furnituro described in the writ of possession, they not having been produced by defendants. Then plaintiff issued a writ of distringas, the execution of which was prohibited. Then this suit was instituted.
Now, the defendants say that article 635 of the Code of Practice provides that if the party who has been condemned to deliver an object con-coals it, or carries it out of the jurisdiction of the court, so that tho sheriff can not seize it, tho party in whose favor the judgment was rendered shall have the choice either of instituting an action for damages or of compelling a specific execution of the judgment by obtaining a sequestration of his other property until he has satisfied it; and that article 63C of the Code of Practice provides that when the judgment orders, not the delivering, but the doing or- refraining from something specified in it, the party ■ condemned, on demand made by the sheriff that he shall comply with it, refuses or neglects to do so, and this refusal or neglect appears by a certificate of the sheriff, the party in whose favor the judgment was rendered may obtain, on motion, an order to distrain all the property, movable and immovable, of tho party who is in default, until ho shall have fully satisfied the judgment. And defendants say that haying obtained a writ of di siringas, about the propriety of which a dispute is still pending, plaintiff can not proceed in an action for damages and on the appeal bond; that one of two remedies was subject to her choice, but that she could not avail herself of both.
Judgment affirmed.
Rehearing refused.
Reference
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- Mary E. Pradat, Widow A. W. Norcross v. Margaret C. Legare and John C. Legare
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