Coe v. Pannel
Coe v. Pannel
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court. In this case Harriet Pannel, widow of the late A. W. Pannel, renounced her right to the acquets of the marriage community, and claims
In the present case, the parish judge ordered payment to be made to H. Pannel, of 25,000 dollars, as a privileged debt on her husband’s succession, for her hereditary and paraphernal property, sold and disposed of by him, during the marriage. From this decree the present appellees, who are admitted to be creditors of the deceased, prayed
The evidence of the case does not show, whether the estate of A. W. Pannel is sufficient to satisfy all demands against it; neither does the judgment of the parish judge contain a general classification of its debts, which is required in case of insufficiency ; which renders doubtful the right of appeal, by the original appellants to the district court. But, as an order to pay with privilege, such as was granted to the present appellant, might have worked to them an irreparable injury, we are of opinion, that the appeal to the district was properly allowed ; especially, as it gave a trial de novo in the higher court.
In examining the judgment of the district court, and the whole evidence in the cause, we are unable to discover on what principles of law, a distinction is made between the 6200 dollars, for which privilege is allowed, and the 19,800, for which it is denied. It appears to us, that if the claims of the appellant were supported by evidence, and all founded
But the evidence of her claim, for the price of the land in Arkansas, sold by the intestate, is so vague and unsatisfactory as to her title in said lands, that this court feel unwilling to pass finally on her rights; and believing that the justice of the case requires the cause to be remanded for a new trial,
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the district court be avoided, reversed, and annulled. And it is further ordered, that this cause be remanded to said court, for a new trial; and that the costs be paid out of the estate of A. W. Pannel.
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- COE & AL. v. PANNEL & AL.
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