Lay v. Succession of O'Neil

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Manning, C. J.

Isaac Lay died in Bossier parish in -1859, leaving, an ;estate and several minor children. Elias O’Neill was appointed administrator.of the. succession, and satisfactorily closed his administration .by final account, duly homologated August 4,1860. , He was then appointed tutor to the minors, and between that date and his death in *723April 1871, he filed eight accounts of his tutorship. His widow is his executrix, and is defendant in this suit.

About six months after his death, the children of whom he had been tutor sued his succession to…