Ex parte Nadal
Ex parte Nadal
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The principal point raised on this appeal relates to the manner of distribution of an estate. The appellant, who is an acknowledged natural child, complains that in such distribution the funeral expenses and legacies were deducted from the whole estate instead of from the part of free disposition, The debts ought always to be deducted from the whole estate.
The liquidation in this case showed that after deducting the debts and legacies the distributable part was $93,953.13. The legacies were $11,770.00, so that the distributable part was $105,723.13. There were two legitimate heirs to whom belonged % of the estate, and one natural- heir. On the basis proposed by appellant each of the legitimate children, being-two, would have been assigned primarily $35,241.040:;, or hs of $105,723.13, and appellant would have been assigned $17,620.52 1/6, or one-lialf of said one-third. Adding to this last-named figure the amount of the legacies of $11,770.00, the total is $29,390.52 1/6, leaving $5,850.52 1 /6, to be distributed in the same proportion out of the part of free disposition. Of this $5,850.521/6 the sum of $2,340.20 13/15 would hence belong to each of the legitimate children and $1,170.1013/30 to the natural child. Adding the, sum of $1,170.1013/30 to the $17,620.521/6 the total would be $18,-790.63, which is exactly what the referee found was due him. On well-known arithmetical principles this -would be found to
The judgment must be
Affirmed.
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