Succession of Cooley

The proceeds of the succession, after paying claims of a higher grade than that of the lessor, the vendor and the homestead claim, were reduced to the sum of $549 92. For this sum a contest arose between a vendor of a lot of furniture, claiming as due him by the estate $874 50; a lessor claiming $1500 for lease of house and lot, and the tutor of the minor child of the decedent, left in necessitous circumstances, claiming a thousand dollars under the homestead law. Each of the contestants claimed superiority of privilege. In the court below judgment was rendered in favor of the minor’s claim,…