Joseph v. Wasserman

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

| j Four plaintiffs, Nathaniel Joseph, Re-cia Joseph, Frank Mitchell, and Lucinda Mitchell, sued Gerald Wasserman. By-judgment rendered on May 5, 2006, the trial judge dismissed their suit with prejudice; the basis for the dismissal is here unimportant. Notice of judgment was mailed on February 8, 2007, and the plaintiffs then timely filed a motion and order for a devolutive appeal. But, for reasons not apparent in the record, the then-trial judge did not sign the order of appeal.

Then, in 2015, when the plaintiffs filed a motion in the trial court requesting the successor…