Smith v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company

McCALEB, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review a judgment of the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, dismissing the suspensive appeal . taken herein by defendants, Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, Edward Butler, Jr. and Kent Enterprises, Inc., 211 So.2d 103. The Court of Appeal held that the appeal was taken from the judgment refusing a new trial, an interlocutory unappealable judgment and, therefore, dismissed it ■on authority of our decision in General Motors Acceptance Corporation v. Deep South Pest Control, Inc., 247 La. 625, 173 So.2d 190 (1965).

A motion to dismiss the appeal had…