Succession of Dean
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Second District Court for the parish of Orleans., A Tissoí, J. ITirst — In determining the reduction to which .donations inter vivos or mortis causa are liable, the value of the property at the decease of the donor or testator is to be considered, but where the appraisement in the inventory, made after the death, is shown to he erroneous, the court should be guided in fixing the value by other and more reliable evidence.
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A PPEAL from the Second District Court for the parish of Orleans., A Tissoí, J. ITirst — In determining the reduction to which .donations inter vivos or mortis causa are liable, the value of the property at the decease of the donor or testator is to be considered, but where the appraisement in the inventory, made after the death, is shown to he erroneous, the court should be guided in fixing the value by other and more reliable evidence. O. O. 1505; Miller vs. Andrus, 1 An. 238; Maples vs. Mitty, 12 An. 760. ■Second — The debts to be deducted from the aggregate amount of property, should…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
Mrs. Mahood died leaving an estate valued, on the inventory taken after her death, at $13,123 71, of which $11,000, was in *868immovables. She left a will containing two particular legacies of $1000 and $2000. She left one child, Mrs. Duffy, the present opponent, who, though made residuary legatee by the will, is before us solely in the capacity of forced heir for one-third of her mother’s estate.
The succession was opened, the will was probated, and an executor qualified, who, however, left the property, for several years, in the hands of Mrs.-…
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