Champlin v. Bakewell

This suit against the succession of' Alexander Gordon was instituted in the Second District Court of New Orleans in May, 1866, to recover a certain draft and a sum- of money paid on the agreement of W. G. Bakewell, the executor, to sell'the plaintiffs the Mexican Gulf Railroad and the property belonging to said succession, which said *354agreement was never carried into effect by tile legal transfer of tlie titles of said property.

The executors of Alexander Gordon excepted to the suit on the ground that the Second District Court was without jurisdiction rations materias, the succession having…