Insurance Co. of St. Louis v. Trascher

Appellee moves to dismiss the devolutive appeal herein taken by plaintiffs from the judgment rendered by the First City Court of New Orleans, which was signed on August 14, 1958, on the ground that the appeal came too late. The appeal was taken August 27, 1958.

LSA-R.S. 13:1971, as amended, lays down the provision that appeals from the city courts of New Orleans “shall be allowed within ten days, exclusive of Sundays, from the signing of the judgment J|t ‡ 5¡í »

Excluding from computation of the term allowed for the taking of the appeal August 14, 1958, the day on which the judgment was signed,…