Fluker Farms, Inc. v. James

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a suit for partition by licitation of a certain five acre tract of land situated in the Parish of Tangipahoa, Louisiana. The defendant filed an answer resisting the plaintiff’s demands on various grounds and following trial on the merits, judgment was rendered by the court below ordering a partition by licitation as prayed for. On the same day the judgment was signed, i. e., April 17, 1953, counsel for defendant moved for and was granted a suspensive and/or devolutive appeal returnable to this court. The appeal bond was not executed until May 25, 1953.

The appellee has…