Succession of Hammett

SUMMERS, Justice.

In her last will and testament Anne Zemurray Hammett made bequests to James H. Atkinson and others. At her death, Samuel Zemurray III was appointed dative testamentary executor. In the course of administering the succession the executor filed a first tableau of distribution.

In the meantime, Atkinson died and Emile J. Drueil, Jr., was appointed administrator of his succession, and, as such, he has filed an opposition to the first tableau of distribution which is the subject of this litigation.

The opposition was denied and the tableau of distribution was homologated by the…