Hawford v. Adler

The plaintiff, a notary public in the parish of East Feliciana, made the inventory of the estate of Benoit Adler, of which the defendants are administrators, under an order from the District Court in which the succession was opened.

This inventory occupies between six and seven pages of this record, and contains about fifteen hundred words, counting every figure as a word. The petition admits that the plaintiff has received one hundred and twenty-five dollars for making this inventory, and he claims five hundred and two dollars and fifty cents additional, upon the following plea: “That by…