Succession of Waterer

On the Merits.

William Lewis administrator of the succession of his deceased wife having filed an account, it was opposed by Mrs. Brumfield, claiming the succession under an assignment from the heirs of the decedent who died intestate, leaving no heirs in the ascending or descending line. The administrator had placed upon the inventory as community property a tract of land, and claimed a credit of seven hundred dollars, the purchase price of the land, which he alleged he paid out of his separate funds. After the trial had commenced the administrator asked to amend his account, so as to claim…