Succession of Wells

This is an appeal from a judgment of the parish court of the parish of Rapides, on opposition to a tableau of distribution, filed by- the executor of Thomas J. AVells.

The items opposed are the executor’s commissions and the attorneys’ foes.

The amount of the commissions charged by the executor is such as the law allows; and, as a debt due by the succession, it is entitled to be paid by preference over the debts of the deceased.

*163In regard to the fees of M. Ryan and Manning and White, the evidence proves that the said attorneys were employed by the executor to attend to the mortuary proceedings…