Thibodeaux v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
Thibodeaux v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
Opinion of the Court
Appellee has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal in this case on the ground that the transcript was not timely filed in this court.
On May 2, 1957, the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, being of the view that it was. without appellate jurisdiction, ordered the appeal transferred to this court. 95 So.2d 183, 186. The decree of the Court of Appeal reads as follows:
“* * * thg appeal is ordered transferred to the Honorable the Supreme Court, of Louisiana, and defendant-appellant is allowed 30 days from the date of finality of this judgment in which to perfect the appeal by filing proper transcript in said court; otherwise the appeal shall be considered as. dismissed.” (Italics ours.)
After that judgment was rendered, both appellant and appellee timely filed applications for rehearing, and on June 4, 1957, the-Court of Appeal denied both applications.
Defendant-appellant caused the transcript to be filed in the Supreme Court on July-24, 1957. The question for our consideration is whether the appeal was lodged in this, court within 30 days from the date of the-finality of the judgment of the Court of Appeal ordering it transferred here.
It is appellee’s position that the period of time which appellant had to file the transcript in the Supreme Court was 30 days from the date on which a rehearing was denied by the Court of Appeal. We do not think this position is well taken.
Article 7, Section 11, of our Constitution provides:
Under this constitutional provision the parties to this suit had 30 days from the date of the refusal of a rehearing to apply to this court for a writ of certiorari, during which time the judgment of the Court of Appeal did not become executory or final. According to the judgment of the Court of Appeal the appellant was allowed 30 days from the finality of its judgment in which to perfect the appeal by filing the transcript in this court. The filing of the transcript here on July 24, 1957, was within the 30-day period allowed by the judgment and hence was timely.
For the reasons assigned the motion to dismiss is denied. Costs of this motion are to be paid by appellee Dalton Joseph Thibodeaux.
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- Dalton Joseph THIBODEAUX v. PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
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