Succession of Von Hoven
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans. Bightor, J. An heir can not require that property given as a particular legacy be applied to pay debts, when there is more than enough of other property.
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans. Bightor, J. An heir can not require that property given as a particular legacy be applied to pay debts, when there is more than enough of other property. When a widow in community and executrix and an heir file a schedule of debts, and show there are debts to be paid and, excluding the legacy, no money to pay them, and demand an •order of sale of enough property to pay the debts, and at ■the same time demand that the residue of the property be sold to effect a partition, and the only other heir admits that the property can not be…
1Opinion of the Court
' The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
Jacob Yon Hoven died on the 9th of February,. 1898. He left surviving him two daughters, issue of his first marriage, and a widow. He left a will dated October 81, 1890, by which-he bequeathed to his widow certain real and personal property,, and appointed her executrix without bond but without seisin. She accepted the executorship, and with the consent of Magadelina Yon Hoven (wife óf Edward Englebrecht), one of the heirs, she administered the succession, the property of which was inventoried under an order of court, on the 13th of…
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