Succession of Dorville
Succession of Dorville
Opinion of the Court
The heirs'of the widow de Santegeme alleging themselves to bo creditors of the decedent, have appealed from the judgment of the Second District Court, homologating the second provisional account of the testamentary executor filed in that court, on the second of September, 1874. These appellants complain, that this judgment of homologatiou was rendered without legal notice having-been given of tbe filing of the executor’s account; that the items of the account are unsupported by any evidence; that the appellants are creditors of the decedent, Celestine Dorville, in the sum of $11,087, exclusive of interest and costs; a part of this indebtedness, viz: $4100, is secured by mortgage, tbe remainder being ordinary claims; that to enforce these claims they had instituted two suits, which were pending in the Second District Court at the time of the homologation of the account on the twenty-first September, 1874; that in March previous, the executor bad acknowledged tbe indebtedness of the succession to the heirs of de Santegeme, on a mortgage note, amounting at
It is therefore ordered, that the judgment appealed from be annulled and set aside. It is further ordered, that this case be remanded to the court of the first instance for further proceedings according to law. The costs of this appeal to be borne by the succession.
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