Verret v. Calcasieu Parish School Board

FRUGÉ, Judge.

We must dismiss, ex proprio motu, the appeal in the instant case as no final judgment appears in the record.1

We note that the record does contain, however, a five-page document in which the trial judge sets out in detail his reasons for judgment, the last paragraph of which bears the notation: “For the reasons assigned, it is ordered that this appeal by Mr. Jesse J. Verret be dismissed at his cost.” (Tr. p. 19). Below this notation appears the signature of the trial judge. Though under the law existing prior to the adoption of our Code of Civil Procedure we might have considered…