Succession of Kerley

Tax,iai?eebo, J.

The contestation presented in this case, grows out of conflicting claims of creditors litigated in the Court below upon the tableau of an insolvent’s succession. The tutor of a minor had caused to he placed on the tableau two claims in favor of his ward, for which he claimed a legal mortgage taking precedence of the claims of the other creditors. One of these claims is for $4; 434 92, alleged to be for the proceeds of sale of several slaves belonging to the minor, and which were sold by his father, then living, who was his natural tutor. The other claim is for the Bum of…