Succession of Linton

J. M. Wells, Junior, the public administrator of the parish of Rapides, took charge — as executor — of the succession of Stephen Duncan Linton, since the 7th of July 1878. The only property of any value then owned by the succession and with which he has had any *131thing to do, was a plantation appraised in 1870 at $24,000 — in 1875, at $18,000, and which — on the 17th of March 1877 — was sold at public auction for $5500. Before 1873, the succession of Linton was undet the ■administration of O. K. Hawley, the then public administrator of the parish of Rapides.

‘On the 9th of April 1877, Wells…