Succession of Payne

This is an appeal by the heirs of one T. H. N. McPherson from an adverse judgment on their opposition to the final account of the dative testamentary executor of the succession of George E. Payne.

The decedent was the owner of a valuable sugar plantation in the parish of St. Charles, before and during the Civil War. In March, 1884, he filed suit for $242,000.97 in the Court of Claims against the United States government for the value of supplies and personal property taken, and for the use and occupation of the plantation and the damage thereto, by the federal troops ^during said war.

The…