Friend v. Graham's Administrator
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western Dist. APPEAL FROM TIIE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF CARROLL, This is an action against the administrator of an estate, for counsel fees. The plaintiff alleges, that as counsellor and attorney at'law, he rendered professional services to the estate, of which the defendant is administrator, for which he charges the sum of five hundred dollars, according to an account annexed.
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Western Dist. APPEAL FROM TIIE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF CARROLL, This is an action against the administrator of an estate, for counsel fees. The plaintiff alleges, that as counsellor and attorney at'law, he rendered professional services to the estate, of which the defendant is administrator, for which he charges the sum of five hundred dollars, according to an account annexed. That said administrator refuses to allow his account as a charge upon the estate of the decedent; wherefore he prays judgment for the amount of his claim. The defendant pleaded a general denial, and further…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The dismissal of this appeal is prayed for on the ground that it is not expressly made returnable to this or any other court.
• As the order granting the appeal is made at the foot, or on the back of the petition, any deficiency thereon may be eked out by a resort to that document. The appeal was not prayed for expressly to this or any other court, but was asked for according to law. There could not be a stronger implication that it was intended to be to this court, as an appeal could be made to no other. The judge in his order made the “.appeal returnable to Alexandria, the first, Monday of…
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