Dinnat v. Succession of Lewis

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

REYNOLDS, J.

The administrator of the Succession of B. T. Lewis, deceased, having placed the Baptist Hospital of Alexandria, La., on his tableau of debts and distribution as a creditor of the succession in the sum of $160.00 and classed its account as "expenses of the last illness” and accorded it the privilege conferred by Article 3252, section 3, of the Civil Code, M. Dinnat, a conventional mortgage creditor of the succession, opposed the homologation of the tableau on the ground that some, if not all, of the services charged for were not “expenses of this last illness.”

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