No. 2863 Precedential Processed

Battalora v. Erath

Louisiana Supreme Court · Filed April 15, 1873 · 25 La. Ann. 318

Also decided on this docket: La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., November 25, 1969 229 So. 2d 177; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., February 5, 1968 207 So. 2d 252; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., April 10, 1930 127 So. 128; La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., June 28, 1927 6 La. App. 823

Opinion text

Ludeling-, C. J. We are asked to dismiss this appeal on the ground) that all the parties in interest are not made- parties to the appeal. *319 The appeal is taken by the plaintiff from a judgment dissolving an injunction, without damages. In his petition of appeal he prayed for-citation against the defendants only. It is contended that the surety on the bond should have been made a party to the appeal. We can not imagine why ? For if cited there could be no change made in the ■ judgment, as between the appellees. In the case of B. Avegno v. S. Johnson, G. Metz subrogated, 22 An.,, it was said that it is “the settled jurisprudence of this court that the surety on an injunction bond is a necessary party to an appeal.” The principle was, too, broadly stated that the surety was a necessary party in that case, which was an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff perpetuating an injunction. He had an interest in maintaining that judgment. But it is different in a case where the judgment dissolves the injunction without damages, and the plaintiff alone appeals. The additional grounds filed on fifteenth November, 1870, came too - late, and can not be considered. 12 An. 745. It is therefore ordered that the motion be overruled.