Erie v. Primos’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““However, an appeal from a judgment which is not signed until after the appeal is taken, but which is signed before the transcript is returnable to the appellate court, and which actually appears in the transcript, is not subject to dismissal because of the appellant’s premature action in appealing from the unsigned judgment. The fact that the judgment was signed, plus the fact that it appears in the record before us as a final decree, has the effect of curing the prematurity of the application for and the order of appeal, and the most that can be said is that by applying for the appeal before the judgment was signed, appellant abandoned the right accorded him by law to apply for' a new trial. See Mossler Acceptance Co. v. Moliere, La. App., 181 So. 228 , and authorities therein cited. “The motion to dismiss is denied.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cox v. Gross