Derbes v. Dixie Mill Supply Co.

My associates are of the opinion that the question here presented is no longer an open one, having been settled by the Supreme Court in Keenan v. Whitehead, 15 La. Ann. 333.

I do not find that the views, expressed in the syllabus in that case were necessary to a decision, and the acceptance of that decision as determinative of the question involved here would establish a principle of which I cannot approve; i. e., that interest on a judgment which allows interest, but.which fails to fix the time at which it shall commence to run is, in all cases, collectible from the date of judicial demand.

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