Legal Opinion

Bell v. B. Silbernagel & Co.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided July 15, 1871No. 198PublishedCited by 2 opinions

APPEAL from the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, parish of Morehouse.

1Opinion of the CourtWyly, J.

The motion to dismiss this appeal because tlie plaintiff, the appellant, a married woman, is not authorized by her husband or the court to prosecute it, is not well taken.

Her husband having- made himself a party to the suit hclow for the express purpose of authorizing his wife, authorized all orders obtained in that court in her behalf, among them was the order of appeal obtained on motion.

We think authority to prosecute a suit means authority to prosecute-it to completion and in all courts necessary to its completion.

The plaintiff enjoins tho execution of tho judgment which she confessed in…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Cornish v. ChaneySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1933
  2. O'Sullivan v. KnopLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1940

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