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Pinnell v. Scriber's Administrator

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 15, 1838PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Western Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF OUACIIITA. The plaintiffs, who are the widow and her second husband, as co-tutor of the minor child, and sole heir of the deceased, John S. Scriber, made opposition on various grounds, to the administrator’s account. The defendant filed his final tableau and account of the administration of the decedent’s estate, and prayed that it be homologated, his bond cancelled and he discharged.

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Western Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF OUACIIITA. The plaintiffs, who are the widow and her second husband, as co-tutor of the minor child, and sole heir of the deceased, John S. Scriber, made opposition on various grounds, to the administrator’s account. The defendant filed his final tableau and account of the administration of the decedent’s estate, and prayed that it be homologated, his bond cancelled and he discharged. In making up his account he debited himself with the amount of the inventory three thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars, and also with…

1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.

The appellee, as administrator of the estate of J. S. Scriber, presented his account to the Court of Probates, and its homologation was opposed on several grounds by the appellants, who have appealed from a judgment by which their opposition was disregarded. 1 *, . . , . , . , 1 he first item objected to m the account opposed, is the commission charged by the administrator on a sum of ten thousand seven hundred and ninet.v-five dollars and two ..... ' . . cents, winch, it is contended, never came into his hands as administrator, but that it was received from the estate of t^e¡L. father.

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