Succession of Saunders
Supreme Court of Louisiana
\ PPEAL from the Second District Court, Parish of Bossier. XJL Drexo, J. 1. Interest is due on any balance found to be owing by an administrator from the date of the judgment establishing the debt.
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\ PPEAL from the Second District Court, Parish of Bossier. XJL Drexo, J. 1. Interest is due on any balance found to be owing by an administrator from the date of the judgment establishing the debt. The amount must be considered due ex contractu. 3 A.. 574, St. Andre vs. Rachal. • The syndic of a succession found, after an examination of his accounts, to owe a balance to the estate, should bo condemned, like a creditor or executor, to pay interest tbereon at the rate of five per cent, a year from date of jmdgment, 10 R., 479, Succession of Desorme ; 9 A., 376, Bass vs. Chambliss. An…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Manning, J.
B. L, Saunders died in Bossier parish in 1852, and G-. W. Thompson qualified as dative executor and sold the property of the. *772estate. The widow of Saunders, Hannah P. Gee, recovered a judgment of the executor in 1854 for the usufruct of one-ninth of the property. Gee v. Thompson, XI Ann., 657. She was unable to give security and therefore the fund remained in Thompson’s hands and he paid her the annual interest to June 17, 1874. In 1882 she brought suit in Natchitoches parish against Thompson to recover the interest since that date which wo…
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