Adams v. His Creditors
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OE THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, POR THE TARISn OP IBERVILLE, JUDGE COOLEY, THE THEN JUDGE OP THE DISTRICT, PRESIDING. On the 9th March, 1838, the plaintiff filed his petition and bilan, and obtained a stay of proceedings, under the insolvent laws.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OE THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, POR THE TARISn OP IBERVILLE, JUDGE COOLEY, THE THEN JUDGE OP THE DISTRICT, PRESIDING. On the 9th March, 1838, the plaintiff filed his petition and bilan, and obtained a stay of proceedings, under the insolvent laws. He placed his daughter, Mrs. P. Andrews, on his bilan as a privileged creditor of the first rank, on account of a judgment she had obtained against him in the Probate Court for fifty-three thousand eight hundred and forty-seven dollars, for her mother’s half of the succession, as it stood at her decease in 1819.…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
An account current of his administration was filed by the syndic, in 'this case, showing a sum of eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars, then ready for distribution. It was accompanied by a petition, setting forth that Penelope Adams, wife of John Andrews, is a privileged creditor for one hundred and eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, being the amount accruing to her from the estate of her mother, Susan Johnson, the deceased wife of the insolvent. She is therein set down as entitled to the whole balance, in part payment of. her claim. To this tableau of…
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