Navarro v. Derbes

FOURNET, Justice.

Counsel for the appellees, representing the widow and heirs of the late Charles J. Derbes, one of the parties defendant in the above entitled case, has moved that the appeal taken from the judgment of the lower court dismissing the suit of the plaintiffs be dismissed as to them for the reason that the said Charles J. Derbes died on October 11, 1946, prior to the rendition of the judgment in the matter on October 14 and its signing by the trial judge on October 22.

Although the proceedings in the district court were valid up to the moment of Mr. Derbes’s death, at that instant…