Price v. Foster

ROGERS, Justice.

Plaintiff sued the universal and particular legatees of J. M. Foster, who died on August 4, 1928, for $4,930.23, alleged to be due him for services rendered in connection 'with an income tax assessment levied against the decedent.

The legatees were placed in possession of their respective legacies by judgment of the First district court for the parish of Caddo on April 13, 1929. The present suit was filed on July 18, 1932, and in bar of, plaintiff’s action the particular legatees filed a plea of three years’ prescription under article 1068 of the Civil Code. The plea was…