Seagull Gasoline Co. v. Tieuel

The plaintiff sued and obtained judgment against the defendant in the sum of $1,081. The defendant was granted orders of suspen-sive and devolutive appeal. After the transcript had been lodged in this court, the law firm of Wilson & Abramson, which had represented the plaintiff in the trial court, appeared and obtained an order, founded on the averment that it had secured an assignment of the judgment from the plaintiff, substituting itself as party plaintiff-appellee.

The substituted appellee then moved to dismiss the appeal, and was met with an exception of no cause of action, filed by the…