Succession of Virgin
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the District Court of the Parish of Jefferson, — Admitting that the widow is in indigent circumstances, still we say that, in the present case, she nor her children are entitled to anything. - The opponent’s judgment was recorded long prior to the death of Virgin, and had it not been for the fraudulent proceedings of Virgin and wife, in placing the property beyond the immediate reach of the creditors, deponent would have had her judgment satisfied during Virgin’s…
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APPEAL from the District Court of the Parish of Jefferson, — Admitting that the widow is in indigent circumstances, still we say that, in the present case, she nor her children are entitled to anything. - The opponent’s judgment was recorded long prior to the death of Virgin, and had it not been for the fraudulent proceedings of Virgin and wife, in placing the property beyond the immediate reach of the creditors, deponent would have had her judgment satisfied during Virgin’s lifetime, and we consider that the widow cannot be now allowed to profit of her own wrongful acts. 2 An. 15 and 16.…
1Opinion of the CourtInsiiBY, J.
The Court very properly sustained Mrs. Child’s claim for three thousand one hundred and ninety dollars as a privilege claim, only inferior to those specially mentioned in the decree of the lower Court.
The reduction of the fee to the counsel for the succession, to two hundred dollars, was correctly made, on account of the limited means of the succession. See Succession of Jean Mayer, 12 Rob. 413; Stein v. Bouman’s Curator, 9 La. 284.
The claims of E. F. Virgin, for taxes of 1857, 1859, insurance, counsel’s fees, costs of protest, and fees in his suit against the property, were properly…
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