Matthews v. Spears

[1] In this case the defendant, I.H. Spears, filed an application for a rehearing on January 14, 1946. Notice of the opinion and decree was addressed to the defendant by registered letter and a return card was signed for I.H. Spears by his agent, Marion Lyles, on December 26, 1945. As we stated in the case of McCaskey Register Company v. Lumpkin et al., La. App., 197 So. 640, this court will accept a post office return receipt of a registered letter addressed to the attorney and signed by the purported agent of the addressee as evidence of the receipt of the notice by the attorney on the date…